buffet

Universal Words noun-see also BUFFET 1 a meal at which people serve themselves from a table and then stand or sit somewhere else to eat: a buffet lunch / supper * Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal. * a finger buffet (= food that you can eat with your hands, not with a knife and fork) 2 a place, for example in a train or bus station, where you can buy food and drinks to eat or drink there, or to take away 3 (BrE) = BUFFETCAR 4 (especially AmE) = SIDEBOARD(1) verb [VN] [oftenpassive] to knock or push sb/sth roughly from side to side: to be buffeted by the wind * (figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes. seealsoBUFFET buffeting noun [U,C,usually sing.]: The tiny boat was ill-equipped for the buffeting it got from the wind and the rain.