diner
IPA: dˈaɪnɝ
noun
- One who dines.
- A dining car in a railroad train.
- (US) A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
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Examples of "diner" in Sentences
- The diner opens for the dinner.
- Joe is the current owner of the diner.
- Michael and Mimi come into the diner and pay the bill.
- Arthur is a waiter at a diner in the beginning of the movie.
- A number of unusual trinkets line the front area of the diner.
- There are also scenes of the band performing in front of the diner.
- Check the credits at the end of the movie for who else was in the diner.
- Alice was the emotional center of the diner and often the voice of reason.
- Before eating, the diner could open the packet of nori and wrap the onigiri.
- Not many restaurants transfix diners with a 180 degree view that takes in seven glaciers.
- Check out this retro-cool Twilight Zone bobblehead nicked from the William Shatner "fortune teller in diner" episode. [via Super Punch]
- Elaine was incensed that a certain diner featured only big-breasted waitresses -- until she discovered that all the women were the owner's daughters.
- The expansive menu found at the typical American diner is great and all, but only because we all know what is on it (breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, cheap meat).
- Such behavior might make sense when a diner is willing to put up with a mediocre meal at a crowded chain restaurant to avoid the risk of food poisoning at a quirky neighborhood joint.
- And my husband and I, who follow all the conventional coffee ideas, have a secret love at least it was secret until now for what we call diner coffee, which you get from diners and cheap restaurants.
- Just beyond the diner is the New Empress movie theater, and on Saturday afternoons you will see a group of kids lined up outside waiting to go in and see a Western, some cartoons, and a chapter in the Buck Rogers weekly serial.
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