Definitions

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  • noun A friend or colleague with whom one eats lunch.
  • noun Sentence Usage: The lunchmates find time to come together every noontime and eat lunch at the PESCAR multi-purpose canteen.

Etymologies

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lunch +‎ mate

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Examples

  • Both my dinner companion last night and my lunchmate today said they thought Bachmann was engaging in ugly dog-whistle politics.

    The 'gangster' rap on Michele Bachmann 2011

  • Other burger runs followed with similar fanfare, including a particularly embarrassing trip to Five Guys with NBC anchor and lunchmate Brian Williams, who was doing a “day in the life” love-in with the president.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • Other burger runs followed with similar fanfare, including a particularly embarrassing trip to Five Guys with NBC anchor and lunchmate Brian Williams, who was doing a “day in the life” love-in with the president.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • Other burger runs followed with similar fanfare, including a particularly embarrassing trip to Five Guys with NBC anchor and lunchmate Brian Williams, who was doing a “day in the life” love-in with the president.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • Other burger runs followed with similar fanfare, including a particularly embarrassing trip to Five Guys with NBC anchor and lunchmate Brian Williams, who was doing a “day in the life” love-in with the president.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • The Times 'page 1 opus on April 27, co-written by lunchmate Morgenson, faulted Geithner for being too close and clubby with the financiers he was supposedly monitoring.

    Yvette Kantrow: Club sandwich 2009

  • Boston recently lost 8 Minute Dating to Florida; Tom Jaffee was a frequent lunchmate, our offices were only a few blocks apart, Tom I miss you buddy.

    Union Square Ventures funds OKcupid ??? « The Paradigm Shift 2006

  • Germany has the most vibrant magazine industry in the world: According to my lunchmate, Wolfgang Stock, CEO of Germany's Spotlight Verlag, his country is facing a bleak economic future, owing to an overpaid and greedy workforce.

    Cable Neuhaus: Report from the World Magazine Congress 2008

  • Lupina's lunchmate, Travis Harris, 20, was just as blase.

    On Guard 2007

  • All this lunchmate goodness AND you're kicking my ass in scrabble.

    Knitter's Who Lunch - And She Knits Too! 2007

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