Definitions

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  • noun humorous slang A meal consisting of a fusion of breakfast (one’s first meal upon awakening) and dinner.

Etymologies

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Blend of breakfast and dinner, on the pattern of brunch.

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Examples

  • Although you can't turn your nighttime visit into a "brinner" as ours, you can still head to Pasadena for brunch, and soon do the same in Santa Monica.

    LAist 2009

  • In the evening, it's "brinner" Simple breakfast for dinner.

    Slashfood 2009

  • In the evening, it's "brinner" Simple breakfast for dinner.

    Slashfood 2009

  • After seeing what his secret new knowledge of Spanish can get him (beginning with "brinner"), Turk reconsiders making it his anniversary gift to Carla.

    UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com 2008

  • Needless to say, I missed any chance of brinner with me mates, but as it turned out Arthur and Meg were knackered (having just come back from a holiday up north) and were heading back to Portsmouth in the late afternoon anyway.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Needless to say, I missed any chance of brinner with me mates, but as it turned out Arthur and Meg were knackered (having just come back from a holiday up north) and were heading back to Portsmouth in the late afternoon anyway.

    Weekend Wastrelry Hal Duncan 2006

  • Templet brinner, gjut vatten, gjut hela havet däröver! "

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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  • Breakfast, lunch, AND dinner and evil; 666th addition to the listings. What's not to love?

    July 15, 2008

  • Lunch wasn't that memorable.

    May 11, 2009

  • Perhaps the three-in-one combo should be brunner? (I'll let someone else add it.)

    May 12, 2009