coffee shop
noun
- café
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From coffee + shop.
- A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
“He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.”
“"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].”
- A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
- Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.