cover charge

1. 1.

   a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink

   Synonymscover

   Broaderfixed charge

Questions about cover charge

What does cover charge mean?

cover charge means "a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink".

What is another word for cover charge?

Close synonyms include cover. 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 cover charge a common word?

cover charge 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.