Tearoom

Quick meaning: Tearoom is a noun meaning A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

Meaning

A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

More Meanings

1. (euphemistic, slang) A public lavatory.
2. (Australia) A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

Example Sentences

I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.

I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.

At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.

The euphemistically named "tea room" has been used in sexual subcultures among men who have sex with men (MSM) to describe public sex environments, usually public toilets, where men meet other men in sexual interaction... The term itself might be outdated.

Word Forms

• tearooms
• tea room

Synonyms for tearoom

Depending on context, synonyms include teahouse, gingerbread office, beat, bathroom, latrine, necessarium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include teahouse, teashop, coffeeroom, coffee-room, coffeehouse, still.

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