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n. (context US English) the counter of a soda fountain
Usage examples of "soda counter".
Reaching the drugstore, the Hardys saw nearly a dozen youths clustered around the soda counter, talking excitedly.
Jackie Moon came through the door and made his way back to the soda counter.
Beyond the phone booth she could see the druggist at the soda counter serving milk shakes to four teen-agers.
Now he was seated on a stool at the soda counter, plying Sandy with eager questions.
I guess you would be surprised to see these drug stores where you can go in and sit at the soda counter and order your coffee and sandwiches and custard pie and eat them right there in the drug store, but there are other places, too, like cafeterias, where you put your dishes on a tray and carry it to your own table.