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greasy spoon
noun
an inexpensive and all-around low-brow restaurant US, 1912- They duck out for smokes at the same time, have their crullers and java in the same lunchrooms or greasy spoons. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 142, 1948
- I find myself eating at some greasy spoon next to a liquor store and talking to the most embittered cluck this side of the Continental Divide. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 134, 1961
- [I]t would have gone under because the people seemed to prefer a little greasy-spoon joint down the street from their place. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 83, 1968
- Tonight I got a date to lay a cute hashslinger that works in the greasy spoon around the corner. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 219, 1969
- Annie’s Restaurant was a small, greasy spoon diner located on Alvarado, off Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles. — Donald Goines, Kenyatta’s Last Hit, p. 117, 1975
- Henry lunches with the lads, in a restaurant, pub or a specially treasured working-class caff ("greasy’ spoon"). — Ann Barr and Peter York The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 117, 1982
- I bought an afternoon edition of the evening paper, went to a greasy spoon for a cup of tea and a bit of quiet. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 97, 1998
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