coffee break

1. 1.

   a snack taken during a break in the work day

   “a ten-minute coffee break”

   “the British have tea breaks”

   Synonymstea break

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Questions about coffee break

What does coffee break mean?

coffee break means "a snack taken during a break in the work day".

What is another word for coffee break?

Close synonyms include tea break. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coffee break a common word?

coffee break is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.