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caf en · NOUN

Clippings.

(countable, informal) A café.
- Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana. 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
(countable, informal) A cafeteria.
- There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food. 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
- Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked. 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:
- One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water. 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:
(countable, uncountable) A caffeinated coffee.
- If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf. 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
caff		alternative	lexicographic
cafs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

half-caf (caffeinated coffee) · decaf (caffeinated coffee)

fi kuppila (cafeteria — see also cafeteria)