breakfast mate

plural breakfast mates

1. alternativeAlternative form of breakfast-mate.

   It turns out that his breakfast mate is a chimpanzee, whom Cooper dresses and takes to his car for a day at the studio.

   1972, Leonard Maltin, The Great Movie Shorts: Those Wonderful One- and Two-Reelers of the Thirties and Forties, New York, N.Y.: Bonanza Books, Crown Publishers, Inc., →LCCN, page 189, column 1

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   The next morning when he came down the stairs in his new lodgings with Mr. Read to eat his breakfast, he found to his surprise that his breakfast mate was the young woman who had spurned his once-over glance the day before.

   1995, James C[alhoun] Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: A Treasury of More Than 900 Quotations and Anecdotes, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 119

   Either way, you can interact with the other guests as much—or as little—as you prefer (as long as you’re willing to offer a simple smile and “Good morning” to your breakfast mates).

   2013, Marilyn Odesser-Torpey, Insiders’ Guide® to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Guilford, Conn.: Insiders’ Guide, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, pages 41–42

   As usual, his breakfast mate was his mom, who was poring over the Staten Island Advocate and sipping her coffee with her usual slurping sound.

   2017, Todd Daley, The Mariners Harbor Messiah, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 146