coffee break
noun
1.
a break from work for coffee, a snack, etc.
Origin
1940-45
Examples from the web for
coffee break
In the next three hours, allowing time for a
coffee break
.
Well, it seems the fact checker was on a
coffee break
when this got written.
Make a breakfast ritual of the paper, or take it on your
coffee break
.
Scratch anybody who was hoping to dash out of work during a
coffee break
.
Audiovisual equipment is available for presentations and a
coffee break
or brunch is provided.
The place where the guys who sell fish take their
coffee break
.
But it's actually a logical evolution of one of the great inventions of the twentieth century: the
coffee break
.
Nevertheless, at every
coffee break
during the three-day meeting, one or more participants would gravitate to the telescope.
Slang definitions & phrases for
coffee break
coffee break
noun phrase
A respite of ten or twenty minutes during the workday
(1940s+)