beanery

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small, usually run-down, restaurant featuring low prices and very ordinary food.

Quotations

1887

Go to, illustrious reader; get thee to a beanery. For such is genius!

1950

There are tattoo-ing parlors, Skid Row beaneries, and you can get a haircut for a few cents.