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diner

noun/ˈdaɪ̯nə/

diner: someone who dines
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What It Means

Someone who dines.

Someone who gives a dinner.

A car in a railroad train that serves meals.

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Diner in Context

“f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m...”

— 2004, Will Jones, “Tina from New Mexico: Let Me Tell You ’bout This A**hole…”, in Let Me Tell You ’bout This…, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, page 145

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Did You Know?

From dine + -er.

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