Noun

(en noun)

An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

Noun

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(Australia, NZ, slang) The chain of fast food restaurants.

* 1998 , James Roy, Full Moon Racing , page 25,

“Then of course there?s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”

* 2010 , , The Happiest Refugee , page 103,

Because it was the first-ever Maccas to open in Australia, to commemorate its last day there was going to be a never-seen-before special. It read: ‘bring this flyer in and get a Big Mac for fifty cents’.

Fifty cents! Whoo-hoooo!

* 2011 , Angus Benson, Down South'', in University of Technology, Sydney, ''The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology , unnumbered page,

We slowed down just the once to pick up drive-thru from Maccas . I paid for my own food, but Mul and Seano reckoned they had no money.

(surfing, slang) The surf break Macaronis''; ''plural of macaroni in Indonesia .

* 2005 , Attol Travel [http://www.atolltravel.com/default.htm?http://www.atolltravel.com/Indo/IndonesiaMacaronis.htm]

Just two minute's boat ride from the resort, Macaronis (or 'Maccas'), is a perfectly shaped left-hand barrel that works on all tides,