coffee-and
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editcoffee-and (not comparable)
- (slang, derogatory) Cheap, second-rate.
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 23:
- “That coffee-an’ mac you got,” a French girl would crack to a straight one, and then it was on—hair came out by the handful, some bleached and some unbleached.
Further reading
edit- “coffee-and adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present