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breastaurant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

1990s: blend of breast + restaurant.

Meanings

1. (informal) A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
   • Yet despite negative media attention, breastaurants like Twin Peaks, Spice Rack, Hooters, and Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery seem to be thriving. While casual-dining chains like Applebee’s and Olive Garden are struggling mightily, many breastaurant chains reported 30% or more growth in the last few years. 2015 August 31, Dawn Szymanski & Chandra Feltman, “The psychological toll of being a Hooters waitress”, in Business Insider:
   • Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras. 2012, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums, Lyons Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
   • And feminists aren't the only ones complaining about the Island's inaugural “breastaurant”: Concerned parents whose broods play in the park across the street wonder how to shield them from the chain's double-entendre name, which is about as sophisticated as those looseleaf notes you furtively passed in high school health class. 1995 June 4, Denise Flaim, “Is Hooters Too Hot for the Island?”, in Newsday:
   • Two things attracted Andrew Rodgers and his bachelor-party buddies to Hooters of Virginia, Inc., Roanoke's first and only “breastaurant.” 1993 October 6, “Cheap Thrills”, in The Roanoke Times:
2. (humorous, informal) A lactating woman or her breasts, viewed as a source of nutrition for a child.
   • Helen calls her chest the “breastaurant.” By the time Lili was three months old, Helen says, breastfeeding — oh, excuse me, eating at the breastaurant — became a piece of cake. 1998, Janet Tamoro, So That's What They're For!: Breastfeeding Basics, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 193:
   • No small wonder, since your little one uses your breasts as everything from food supply to a source of comfort. Although time is the best healer, there are some things you can do until your body gets used to being a “breastaurant”: […] 1999, Pregnancy Fitness, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 157:
   • After a long feed, she's sleeping. I take this opportunity to transform from nurser to writer, and I don't know how much time I have until I must, Supermanlike, make the quick change back into “breastaurant” again. 2000 November 12, Lea Haravon Collins, “BST (Baby Standard Time) always means serious adjustment”, in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

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Translations (9)

it ristorante a luci rosse (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · fi tissibaari (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · ru сиськафе́ (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · cmn 波霸餐廳 /波霸餐厅 (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · fi tissiravintola (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · ru брестора́н (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses) · fi imettäjä (breastfeeding woman as a source of nutrition) · pl but see matka (breastfeeding woman as a source of nutrition) · pl but see restauracja (restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses)