self-serve
adjective
: permitting or offering self-service
self-serve gas
a self-serve farm stand
These hotels are surprisingly good—with fresh beds, flat-panel TVs, self-serve breakfast buffets and free wireless broadband.—
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Along with seasonal vegetables and light seafood bites including tuna poke and hamachi and passionfruit crudo, Ember & Vine will also offer 16 self-serve wine dispensers where diners can fill their glasses with 3- and 9-ounce pours.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
There’s a self-serve photo booth from 9 p.m. to midnight near Louisiana Charlies.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 29 Dec. 2025
The self-serve Genie Car Wash opened April 21 in Poway’s Twin Peaks Plaza.
—Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
Trying to feed more people faster, Bob put out self-serve condiments and handed out plain dogs for folks to fix up themselves.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
There’s a self-serve photo booth from 9 p.m. to midnight near Louisiana Charlies.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 29 Dec. 2025
The self-serve Genie Car Wash opened April 21 in Poway’s Twin Peaks Plaza.
—Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
Trying to feed more people faster, Bob put out self-serve condiments and handed out plain dogs for folks to fix up themselves.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for self-serve
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“Self-serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-serve. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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