transport café

English

Alternative forms

  • (informal) transport caf

Noun

transport café (plural transport cafés)

  1. (UK, Ireland) A roadside eating establishment used especially by lorry-drivers; a truck stop.
    • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 51:
      From Area B I'd usually [...] do the whole thing in reverse, until I'd qualified for the reward of a bacon sandwich and a cup of exquisite milky coffee at a transport café in Bartley Green Village.