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Bed and breakfast

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
  2. 2
    A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.

    "The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence."

  3. 3
    an overnight boardinghouse with breakfast wordnet
  4. 4
    The number 26.

    "Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.

Etymology 2

From the notion that two shillings and sixpence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.

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