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short order†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a meal or dish that can be prepared quickly and is cooked to order.
Quotations
1899
[Advert.] Short orders at all times. The Regina.
2†
(used attributively) designating, preparing, or selling such meals.
Quotations
1896
You can snooze in the morning with the assurance that you can get a nice short order breakfast until noon at the Hotel Slocan.
1912
Above the track stretched a row of log shacks calked with clay, and hanging out over the doors such rakish, home-made signs as: "Dad's Stopping-house"; "Short Order Resterant"; "Pool-room"; "The Old Man's Place," etc.
1966
The girl went away and held a hurried conference first with the short-order cook, then, on his advice, went to seek someone in the kitchen.