linner
nounUK /ˈlɪnə/ · US /ˈlɪnəɹ/
Etymology Blend of lunch + dinner.
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A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and dinner.
- Before going to work, I sometimes stop by a fast food joint for linner (too late for lunch, too early for dinner). There's always a group of elderly African men talking about politics. Since the eating area isn't very large and since their conversation is really interesting, I listen in while I'm scarfing down my seven-minute linner. They talk about all sorts of things--health care, work, family--but when it comes to race, there's only one thing they're concerned with: "the man."1994 April 9, Edward Sheng-Yang Wang <edw[…]@uclink.berkeley.edu>, “Re: Globe Article on Interracial Student Interaction”, in soc.culture.asian.american (Usenet), message-ID <2o5nv7$t50@agate.berkeley.edu>:
- “I wouldn’t miss it!” she exclaimed, then groaned. She had a concert the night before three thousand miles away in California. “Could you change it from brunch to a linner?” she asked. “A combination of lunch and dinner?”1995 June 21, Gail Sheehy (), chapter 10, in New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time (non-fiction; hardcover), published 21 June 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
- Synonyms
- dunch