Caf

//kæf// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A café. countable, informal

    "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."

  2. 2
    A cafeteria. countable, informal

    "There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food."

  3. 3
    A caffeinated coffee. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Canadian Armed Forces. Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of Canadian Air Force, predecessor of the Royal Canadian Air Force Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of Central African Federation. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

All synonyms
caffcfrcaf

Example

More examples

"As I entered the café, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television."

Etymology

Clippings.

Related phrases

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