Starbucks

//ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A coffee from Starbucks. countable, metonymically, uncountable

    "I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A widespread chain of coffee shops.

    "Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe."

  2. 2
    plural of Starbuck (surname) form-of, plural

Synonyms

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starbies

Example

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"A light lunch at MacD's, coffee at Starbucks, then a few drinks with shabu-shabu - that's the way it went."

Etymology

From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

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coffee shop

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