deskfast

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• deskfast — UK US /ˈdeskfəst/ noun [C or U] INFORMAL ► WORKPLACE breakfast, when eaten at your desk at work: »Deskfast can be a healthy solution for some people, replacing the doughnut and coffee in the car …   Financial and business terms

• deskfast — (DESK.fust) n. Breakfast eaten at a desk. v., adj. Example Citation: Monday morning 08.30. I am multi tasking (read: trying to do too many things at once). With varying degrees of success I am scanning the trade press while consuming a healthy… …   New words

• Food and Drink — 100 foot diet alcopop allergy bullying antigriddle ape diet apple tourist auto eating beer miler …   New words

• al desko — (al.DES.koh) adv. At a desk. Example Citation: Since Lunch Money was launched amid muted fanfare in September, we have variously lunched in downtown Toronto, New York and Vancouver. This week, our luncheon companion having begged off at the last… …   New words

• auto-eating — pp. Eating without thinking or without being hungry. Example Citations: Women can munch their way into a bigger dress size in weeks by auto eating the calorie equivalent of a Big Mac a day....Boredom is the main reason for auto eating. Jo Willey …   New words

• background — v. To surreptitiously perform a task in the background while one s attention is supposed to be on another task. Example Citation: backgrounding verb The practice of not giving someone your full attention while multitasking. Tim Nelson, Millennium …   New words

• continuous partial attention — n. A state in which most of one s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA. Example Citations: One of the most interesting… …   New words

• cup-holder cuisine — (KUP hohl.dur kwee.zeen) n. Food meant to be consumed while driving in a car or truck and that comes in a package designed to fit inside a cup holder. Example Citation: This year Kellogg s started selling cereal cups designed for cup holders; as… …   New words

• dashboard dining — n. Eating a meal while driving. Example Citation: Dashboard dining seems to be a phenomenon of our times. More and more busy people find their car takes the place of the breakfast table. Fran Berkoff, Time to Go Back to Breakfast, The Toronto Sun …   New words

• drive-through cuisine — n. Food obtained via a restaurant s drive through window. Example Citation: Unlike most drive through cuisine I review, where I use the magic words new ... for a limited time only, Cheesy Bread Sticks have been a fixture on Domino s menu since… …   New words

• drive-time dining — n. Eating a meal while driving. Example Citation: Louis C. DeLuca, a semiretired salesman and a state senator in Connecticut, has had it with people reading the newspaper on the steering wheel, car schooling their kids from the front seat and… …   New words