Restaurant vs Timbit - What's the difference?
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An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
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, 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.}}
(Canada) Brand name of bite-sized doughnut balls sold at the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain and sometimes jocularly regarded as an icon of Canadian culture.
* 2003 26 June, Roy MacGregor, "When size definitely matters: How you order a coffee reveals what type of Canadian you are," The Globe and Mail , p. A2:
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* bar * cook, chef * drive-in * fast food * grill * menu, * slow food * waiter (m), waitress (f), waitron 1000 English basic words ----timbit
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(s)- When colleague John Stackhouse was searching for a title for his lovely book on travelling across Canada, he decided to go with Timbit Nation .