short-order

adjective

: preparing or serving food that can be cooked quickly to a customer's order
a short-order cook

Examples of short-order in a Sentence

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Pasadena, California, claims to be its birthplace after a 16-year-old short-order cook served a cheeseburger over 100 years ago in a roadside hamburger joint. Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024 But for true Detroiters, this scene describes the many Coney Island restaurants across the city that true Detroiters have come to know, love and appreciate because of anonymous short-order cooks that take tremendous pride in their craft. Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2024 Your host is not an airline or a short-order kitchen. George Gurley, New York Times, 21 June 2024 Unlike many other kitchen-set offerings, La Cocina focuses largely on the immigrant workforce of the restaurant industry and also offers a romance between a short-order cook (Briones) and a waitress (Mara). Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for short-order 

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of short-order was in 1900

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“Short-order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/short-order. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

short-order

adjective
ˌshȯrt-ˌȯrd-ər
: preparing or serving food that can be cooked quickly when a customer orders it
a short-order cook
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