greasy spoon

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   a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods

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Questions about greasy spoon

What does greasy spoon mean?

greasy spoon means "a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods".

Is greasy spoon a common word?

greasy spoon 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.