suppermate
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suppermate (plural suppermates)
- A friend or colleague with whom one eats supper.
- Coordinate terms: dinnermate, lunchmate
- 1968 March 9, Jack O’Brian, “New York’s Voice of Broadway”, in The Pocono Record, volume 79, number 275, Stroudsburg, Pa., page 6, column 3:
- Ingrid Bergman’s suppermate at “21” was Francis Robinson of The Met Opera.
- 1984, Lorenzo W[ilson] Milam, The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues, San Diego, Calif.: Mho & Mho Works, →ISBN, page 197:
- Marcellina, another suppermate, is also thirteen but looks to be eleven.
- 1988 June, The Archon, page 36, column 2:
- Since all the suppermates were interested businessmen and investors, they unanimously championed Ben Goodspeed’s book, the Tao Jones Averages on whole-brained investing.
- 1991, Julie Scott Meisami, transl., The Sea of Precious Virtues (Baḥr al-Favāʼid): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes, Salt Lake City, Ut.: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 156:
- Third, respect your suppermate, so as not to eat more than he, for that is unlawful.
- 2008, Aïda Rogers, “Rockaway Athletic Club, Columbia, Richland County”, in Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full: A Collection of Sandlapper’s Favorite Restaurants, Sandlapper Society, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:
- Fat Tuesday. What a great day to be at Rockaway Athletic Club, that bastion of cold beer, good food, and loud music in Columbia. What am I giving up for Lent? Guilt. That’s why I had no qualms about ordering the famous Pimento Cheese Fries with jalapeños and dominating them at our table of four. My suppermates had ditched their guilt, too; but by the time we were through, our pants were tight and we were happy.