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coffee break

NOUN
pause from work
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The designer brand boasts a strawberry milk printed crossbody, a coffee break tote, a silk tomato ketchup bandana, a snack pendant and gold-toned ketchup packet, fries and hot dog drop earrings.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024

Outside the university, in an area popular with tourists, Faig Jafarli, 27, was out on his coffee break from work when he noticed that a road near the university was shut.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

Poehler: We did have to build in a coffee break.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2023

“Here you have five African American men who know the plight of African American men,” Jopie Merriweather, 57, said during a midafternoon coffee break.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Those of you who are fellow office workers and find yourselves reading this incisive journal during a coffee break or such might take note of one or two of my innovations.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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