greasy spoon

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(informal, often disapproving) a small cheap restaurant, usually one that is not very clean or attractive

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

greasy spoonEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus greasy spoonEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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greasy spoon