• Caf

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: kăf, IPA: /kæf/
    • Rhymes: -æf

    Origin 1

    Abbreviation of café.

    Full definition of caf

    Noun

    caf

    (plural cafs)
    1. (colloquial) café
      • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.

    Origin 2

    Abbreviation of cafeteria.

    Noun

    caf

    (plural cafs)
    1. (colloquial) cafeteria
      • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.
      • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
      • 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.

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