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suspended coffee

suspended coffee noun: a cup of coffee that a customer pays for in a café, but which is not actually dispensed at the time; rather, any disadvantaged person is later able to claim it without having to pay.

Noun

suspended coffee (countable and uncountable, plural suspended coffees)

  1. A cup of coffee that a customer pays for in a café, but which is not actually dispensed at the time; rather, any disadvantaged person is later able to claim it without having to pay.

Forms of suspended coffee

pluralsuspended coffees

Origin of suspended coffee

Calque of Italian caffè sospeso.

Questions about suspended coffee

What does suspended coffee mean?
Suspended coffee means a cup of coffee that a customer pays for in a café, but which is not actually dispensed at the time; rather, any disadvantaged person is later able to claim it without having to pay.
What part of speech is suspended coffee?
Suspended coffee is a noun.
What is the plural of suspended coffee?
The plural of suspended coffee is suspended coffees.

Words near suspended coffee in the dictionary

  1. suspendability
  2. suspendable
  3. suspended
  4. suspended animation
  5. suspended chord
  6. suspended coffee
  7. suspended coffees
  8. suspended congress
  9. suspended cymbal
  10. suspended cymbals
  11. suspended hyphen

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