Meanings
plural lunchees
- One who is treated to lunch by another person.
If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early.
2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 2131 more example
Business is finally and gradually crept up on with careful avoidance of any implications that the lunch exists specifically to enhance the lunchee's opinions about the lunchor and the lunchor's assessment of the lunchee.
1998, Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt, Thinking About Management, page 147
Origin
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lunchee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunchee
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