as in snack bar
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Recent Examples of greasy spoon
City Island Diner feels like being in a small hometown greasy spoon that could be anywhere from Ohio to upstate New York.
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Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Run by ex-party girl Wendy, unhinged chef Milius, and odd busboy Willard, this Fresno greasy spoon must overcome unpaid bills and a once-in-a-lifetime volcanic eruption.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Residents of New Hampshire, where Presidential hopefuls often court diners at greasy spoons, have come to expect high-level politico drop-ins.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
So far, Pilcher says Germans seem to love the state’s array of greasy spoons.
—Will Peischel, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2024
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Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
Run by ex-party girl Wendy, unhinged chef Milius, and odd busboy Willard, this Fresno greasy spoon must overcome unpaid bills and a once-in-a-lifetime volcanic eruption.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Residents of New Hampshire, where Presidential hopefuls often court diners at greasy spoons, have come to expect high-level politico drop-ins.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
So far, Pilcher says Germans seem to love the state’s array of greasy spoons.
—Will Peischel, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greasy spoon
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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
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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
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Tangier is more than just colonial patina and hash houses.—
Graham H. Cornwell,
Washington Post,
8 Apr. 2023
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Sensing her discomfort, Young offered her some memorably sage advice: ‘This is just another hash house on the road to success.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2020
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How The Controversy Started Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum of American History.—
Melissa Noel,
Essence,
28 Apr. 2025
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The store with the old oak floor was so charming, the middle-aged writers who hung around the lunch counter ordering vegan BLTs were charming.—
Hayley Krischer,
People.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Steer clear of windows and avoid large open spaces like cafeterias, gymnasiums, or auditoriums.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2025
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Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and cafeterias are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2025
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The steak house speaks its own language, no matter how much of the menu is retitled in French.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The group went to the Crane Club steak house on Saturday, Feb. 15, around a week after Rock's Feb. 7 birthday.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Greasy spoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greasy%20spoon. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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