linner

A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and dinner.

Noun

  1. A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and dinner.
    • Before going to work, I sometimes stop by a fast food joint for linner (too late for lunch, too early for dinner). There's always a group of elderly African men talking about politics. Since the eating area isn't very...
    • “I wouldn’t miss it!” she exclaimed, then groaned. She had a concert the night before three thousand miles away in California. “Could you change it from brunch to a linner?” she asked. “A combination of lunch and...

Origin

Blend of lunch + dinner.

Forms

linners

Synonyms

dunch

Related

brinner brunch brupper