to grab coffee
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1.6
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
tomar un café
- Grab a coffee and a donut before you head out, and it could be the start of a wonderful tradition!
- grab a cup of coffee
- go grab a coffee
- wanna grab a coffee
And so I just felt this need to grab my coffee and to run up here.
- And so I just felt this need to grab my coffee and to run up here.
- So I'm going to go in, maybe grab some coffee and then the Beltline is right there.
- OK, This is like my new She's casual on the weekend, grabbing a coffee and getting some groceries.
- I am grabbing another coffee and I'm heading down for my final walkthrough.
- So let's grab our jewels, let's grab our coffee, let's grab our tops, and let's head to the makeup.
- All right, I'm gonna go grab a coffee at at Skew Chairs Scooters.
- I'm going to go grab a coffee and we're going to get going.
Examples
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Oh, hello, made it to the train station with enough time to grab a coffee, which is very important.
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I was thinking we should go grab a coffee.
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So, yeah, we're going to grab coffee, go to the room, kick it.
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Going to grab some coffee with some of my friends from school.
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Do you think we can grab a coffee or something?
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Do you wanna come grab a coffee with me?
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You want to grab a cup of coffee?
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Let's grab a coffee real quick.
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Maybe we can grab coffee sometime this week?
Blog text (9) -
Do you want to grab coffee with me at that new cafe tomorrow?
Synonyms
100
1.0
To buy coffee to drink with someone casually
24
4.6
To grab something quickly, often before someone else
7
2.4
To buy a cup of coffee quickly as a short break
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to quickly get or buy a cup of coffee' is directly derivable from combining 'grab' (to take or get quickly) with 'coffee' (the beverage); the verb+object composition yields a literal, predictable interpretation. Although colloquial and sometimes used to imply meeting for coffee, the core sense is transparent and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Grab coffee comes from the simple image of someone quickly taking a cup of coffee on the go. Because this is often a short, casual stop, people use grab coffee to mean 'to quickly get or buy a cup of coffee' or to meet briefly to chat.