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A large international chain of coffee shops.
"They grabbed coffee at Starbucks before the meeting."
How to Use Starbucks
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe well-known coffee shop chain.
Common pairings
grab a Starbucks
Starbucks coffee
Word Forms
Starbuckses plural, Starbucks plural, Starbuckses plural, Starbucks plural
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Etymology
Named after Starbuck, the first mate in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, itself inspired by the real-life Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family from Nantucket, Massachusetts.