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regular coffee

regular coffee noun: coffee with cream and sugar (in contrast to the expected meaning of "black coffee" in other regions of the US).

Noun

regular coffee (countable and uncountable, plural regular coffees)

  1. (New-England) Coffee with cream and sugar (in contrast to the expected meaning of "black coffee" in other regions of the US).
  2. (Canada) Coffee with one cream and one sugar.
    • Gimme three regular coffees and three blacks.
  3. Black coffee.
  4. Coffee with caffeine (as opposed to decaffeinated).
  5. (US, dialectal) American coffee, as opposed to espresso, or a derived coffee drink (cappuccino, latte, iced coffee, etc).

Forms of regular coffee

pluralregular coffees

Questions about regular coffee

What does regular coffee mean?
Regular coffee means coffee with cream and sugar (in contrast to the expected meaning of "black coffee" in other regions of the US).
What part of speech is regular coffee?
Regular coffee is a noun.
What is the plural of regular coffee?
The plural of regular coffee is regular coffees.

Words near regular coffee in the dictionary

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