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Starbucks en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/ (US)
• (US) audio
• /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse stor Old Norse bekkr English Starbeck English Starbuck English -'s English -s English Starbucks From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

Meanings

1. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) A coffee from Starbucks.
   • I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose. 2009, Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel, page 163:
   • One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.” 2009, Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:
   • “Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.” 2015, Valerie Goldsilk, Sins of Our Sisters, Whiskey Creek Press, →ISBN:
   • I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks. 2010, Timothy, “How My Life Changed”, in Kevin Leman, Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days, Revell, →ISBN, page 73:
   • US Weekly’s regular photographic feature, “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” which features celebrities engaged in such mundanities as pumping their own gas or drinking Starbucks, is a direct visual demonstration of this condescending simulated intimacy. 2017, Karen Adkins, Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 239:

Forms

Synonyms

Starbies

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Starbucks en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/ (US)
• (US) audio
• /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse stor Old Norse bekkr English Starbeck English Starbuck English -'s English -s English Starbucks From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

Meanings

1. A widespread chain of coffee shops.
   • Said the CEO of the nearly 500-plus store Caribou Coffee chain, “I got into the business because of what they [Starbucks] created.” In China, a small chain, Real Brewed Tea, aims to be “the Starbucks of tea.” 2014, George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society, →ISBN:
   • Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other. 2015, O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Linda Ferrell, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, 10th edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 397:
   • Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.” 2013, Taylor Clark, Starbucked, →ISBN:
   • Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe. 2005 April 30, Melinda Newman, “Q&A”, in Billboard, number 18, page 31:
   • Also returning is Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, an iced-drink topped with pumpkin cream cold foam and a dusting of pumpkin spice that Starbucks launched in 2019. 2022 August 29, Jordan Valinsky, “Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back at a higher price”, in CNN Business:
   • On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine. 2010, Michael Salvatore, {Between} Boyfriends, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 49:
   • Consider the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ... 2008, Andrew M. Jones, The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation, →ISBN:
2. (form-of, plural) plural of Starbuck (a surname)
   form of Starbuck

Forms

Deriveds

Shitbucks · Starbucksification · Starbies · S'bucks · 'Bucks

Relateds

Tim Hortons

Translations (31)

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wikipedia: Herman Melville · wikipedia: Moby-Dick