GREASY SPOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greasy spoon mean? 

• GREASY SPOON (noun)
  The noun GREASY SPOON has 1 sense:

1. a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods

  Familiarity information: GREASY SPOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREASY SPOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("greasy spoon" is a kind of...):

eatery; eating house; eating place; restaurant (a building where people go to eat)