Greasy spoon

Usage examples of diner.

Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.

He and Margaret had closed the diner for a week each summer to take Addle on a family vacation.

Jack let himself into the diner with the key that Addle had given him weeks before, wondering how he could have been so stupid.

The banquet was laid in the largest hall of the main palace building, a hall which, one of the table servants boasted to me, would accommodate six thousand diners at a single seating.

I did not waste time in circling the great board--with a single leap I cleared table and diners and sprang upon the balcony beyond.

Once across Blanchard, Cutty headed into the diner and dropped into a booth like a rag doll suddenly stuffed with lead shot.

The diner seats himself, fixes a pipe to the spigot in his cheek, so that he may drink continously as he dines, so avoiding the drudgery of opening flasks, pouring out mugs or goblets, raising, tilting and setting down the mug or goblet, with the consequent danger of breakage or waste.

At that moment the door burst open and Corrie Swanson came barging into the diner, tossing back her purple hair, all the little chains and doohickeys pinned to her tank top astir.

Henk was opgestaan en toen Gerard binnentrad, gevoelden zij zich alle drie verlegen voor den knecht over het plotseling afgebroken diner, over de glazen, die in scherven lagen.

Emilie, gapende achter heur waaier, en vlijde zich gemakkelijker in haar fauteuil, een weinig onder den indruk van het genoten diner.

Een diner bij de Moulangers flitste haar door den geest, daarna een rijtoer in den avond, in de omstreken van het kasteel der Des Luynes, daarna eene consultatie met hare doktoren te Parijs.

Du Pont nor the neighbouring diners seemed surprised at the hoggish display.

En denk je soms, dat ik me door jou de les laat lezen aan een diner bij vreemden, denk je dat?

Sim was enjoying himself debating through the menu with two white-jacketed waiters in voices raised over the hubbub of diners noshing and talking.

When lunch rolled around, I volunteered to take Pacal to the nearest diner.