snack bar

noun

: a public eating place where snacks are served usually at a counter

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Meanings of Concession

Concession carries two very distinct meanings in English. It is commonly used to indicate something that has been conceded (as when the politician who loses a race gives a concession speech, or when someone makes a concession in an argument). In a completely different context, the word may be found in the phrase concession stand. Where does this last use come from? Were concession stands originally set up to settle arguments or elections? Hardly. The concession in concession stand denotes “a usually exclusive right to undertake and profit by a specified activity.” The phrase is first recorded in a classified ad seeking someone to work at a booth at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Examples of snack bar in a Sentence

There's a snack bar at the pool where we can get nachos.

Recent Examples on the Web

The church paid more than $18,600 for mostly materials and supplies for the snack bar, walkways, backstops and benches. Donations of labor, snack bar siding, equipment rentals, plumbing services, interior lighting, chain link fencing and base plates for the fields totaled $33,650. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025

Light pours through a nearby window, drawing a rounded trapezoid across her face and the sign above her, indicating exit, elevator, and snack bar. —E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025

By contrast, other categories such as cereals, milk and snack bars offered more options that ranged from minimally processed to highly processed. —Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2025

Includes live music, buffet dinner, appetizers, open bar, snack bar, Champagne toast and party favors. —Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for snack bar

• adar
• afar
• ajar
• alar
• ansar
• bazaar
• bizarre
• boxcar
• boyar
• bulbar
• cachar
• cigar

Kids Definition

snack bar

noun

: a public eating place where snacks are served usually at a counter