breakfast mate

See also: breakfast-mate and breakfastmate

English

Noun

breakfast mate (plural breakfast mates)

1. Alternative form of breakfast-mate.
   • 1972, Leonard Maltin, The Great Movie Shorts: Those Wonderful One- and Two-Reelers of the Thirties and Forties, New York, N.Y.: Bonanza Books, Crown Publishers, Inc., →LCCN, page 189, column 1:

     It turns out that his breakfast mate is a chimpanzee, whom Cooper dresses and takes to his car for a day at the studio.

   • 1995, James C[alhoun] Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: A Treasury of More Than 900 Quotations and Anecdotes, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 119:

     The next morning when he came down the stairs in his new lodgings with Mr. Read to eat his breakfast, he found to his surprise that his breakfast mate was the young woman who had spurned his once-over glance the day before.

   • 2013, Marilyn Odesser-Torpey, Insiders’ Guide® to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Guilford, Conn.: Insiders’ Guide, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, pages 41–42:

     Either way, you can interact with the other guests as much—or as little—as you prefer (as long as you’re willing to offer a simple smile and “Good morning” to your breakfast mates).

   • 2017, Todd Daley, The Mariners Harbor Messiah, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 146:

     As usual, his breakfast mate was his mom, who was poring over the Staten Island Advocate and sipping her coffee with her usual slurping sound.