deskfast en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɛskfəst/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Blend of desk + breakfast.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
The default deskfast, the cereal bar, arrived in Britain from America in the late 1990s and within five years accounted for about a fifth of the total breakfast cereal market.
2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| deskfasts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |