coffee substitute

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   a drink resembling coffee that is sometimes substituted for it

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Questions about coffee substitute

What does coffee substitute mean?

coffee substitute means "a drink resembling coffee that is sometimes substituted for it".

Is coffee substitute a common word?

coffee substitute 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.