transport café

noun

A roadside eating establishment used especially by lorry-drivers; a truck stop.

Meanings

nountransport café (plural transport cafés)

plural transport cafés · alternative informal transport caf

  1. IrelandUKA roadside eating establishment used especially by lorry-drivers; a truck stop.

    From Area B I'd usually [...] do the whole thing in reverse, until I'd qualified for the reward of a bacon sandwich and a cup of exquisite milky coffee at a transport café in Bartley Green Village.

    1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 51

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