tearoom

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/ˈtiˌɹum/

Definition of tearoom

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noun

A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

“At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.”

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noun

A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

“At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.”
(euphemistic, slang)A public lavatory.

“I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.”
“I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.”
“The euphemistically named "tea room" has been used in sexual subcultures among men who have sex with men (MSM) to describe public sex environments, usually public toilets, where men meet other men in sexual interaction... The term itself might be outdated...”
(US, dated, euphemistic, slang)A public lavatory.
(Australia)A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

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From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room”).

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