short-eats
n.pl.— «Go into a “short-eats” shop, and talk to people there!» —“Sri Lanka Travelogue 1993″ by Erik Futtrup Usenet: rec.travel Sept. 28, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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