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greasy spoon

n. Slang

A small, inexpensive, often unsanitary restaurant.

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greasy spoon

(Cookery) slang a small, cheap, and often unsanitary restaurant, usually specializing in fried foods

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greas′y spoon′

n.
Slang.

a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.

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greasy spoon - a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods

eatery, eating house, eating place, restaurant - a building where people go to eat

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gargote

greasy spoon (café)

n (pej inf) → billiges Fresslokal (pej inf)

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5Spam TERRY JONES plays a Spam-loving, greasy spoon cafe proprietor with a clientele of singing Vikings in this sketch from 1976.

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Whether it's a greasy spoon, fish and chip shop, or top class restaurant, the Food Standards Agency's food hygiene rating system has allowed customers the first proper way of knowing whether the food they're buying has been made in an environment that wouldn't put you off your curry, kebab or baguette.

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The new sketch will see the retired footballer go to Peckham to join the duo in a greasy spoon cafe.