lunch counter

noun

1
: a long counter at which lunches are sold
2

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In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins. Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 At Kitty’s Cafe in midtown Kansas City, with just two chairs at a small lunch counter, that wisdom holds true. Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025 Golden was reared on jazz and experimental theater by her parents, who ran a lunch counter in Brooklyn. Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunch counter

Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of lunch counter was in 1869

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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.

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