A drink taken in the afternoon; a light refreshment between meals; a snack.

A small meal; a snack. Chiefly regional in later use.

A portion of food or drink; a light meal. Now rare.

A light meal.

A small repast between meals; a ‘snack,’ nuncheon, or lunch; esp. one in the afternoon between mid-day dinner and supper. Chiefly dialect.

A slight repast between meals. Sometimes called running banquet. (Often transferred and figurative, as in preceding sense.) Obsolete.

Hence, in gen. use, A light meal or repast: one consisting of light viands or delicacies (e.g. fruit, sweets, and wine), or that has needed little…

A hasty meal or morsel; a snack.

= bever, n. 3.

With article or demonstrative pronoun, or in plural (= sense A. 1). With adjective preceding. Also in a little something: some food or drink; a…

a light refreshment taken about four o'clock; also †four hours penny (see quot. 1651).

A drink or light refreshment between meals. Obsolete. rare.

spec. A light snack or drink. Chiefly in plural.

A slight or hasty meal or mouthful; a snack. Now dialect or spec. (cf. quot. 1883). Also in combinations, as snap-time, snap-tin.

Originally, a slight repast taken between two of the ordinary meal-times, esp. between breakfast and mid-day dinner. The word retains this original…

figurative. dialect, Australian, and New Zealand. Food, provisions; a light meal or snack; a piece of bread, cake, etc. Frequently attributive.

A light meal; a snack.

A lunch; a light meal.

figurative. A hasty meal like a traveller's, a snack. Obsolete.

Reduced form of nuncheon, n.

A light meal or snack eaten in the afternoon.

Something that whets the appetite; chiefly, light refreshment taken as an appetizer or to stave off hunger till the next meal; esp. an appetizer…

A snack or lunch; a light meal, esp. one consisting largely of bread.

In Italian-speaking contexts: a light meal, esp. one taken in the afternoon.

A refreshing drink (now rare); a light meal or snack; a reception at which refreshments are served.

Used in the northern counties of England for food eaten between regular meals; now, esp. in Lancashire, an afternoon meal, ‘afternoon tea’ in a…

A mere bite or morsel of food, as contrasted with a regular meal; a light or incidental repast.

A light repast at which coffee is taken (cf. tea, n.1 4a); or a final course at dinner consisting of coffee. Also, (a, the) coffee, a cupful of…

a light meal taken late in the morning or early in the afternoon.

A light meal, esp. one taken in the middle of the day.

a snack to stay the stomach or appetite; also figurative.

Something that takes off the edge of appetite.

eleven o'clock (dialect and formerly in U.S.A.), eleven hours (Sc.), a refreshment or slight repast taken at about eleven o'clock.

= nuncheon, n.

Scottish and English regional. A light meal or snack eaten in the morning. Now rare.

Short for. plural (in form fourses). A light meal taken in the fields at four o'clock in the afternoon. local. Cf. bever, n. 3.

A light meal taken by workmen about four o'clock in the afternoon.

A synonym of luncheon, n. 2. (Now the usual word except in specially formal use, though formerly objected to as vulgar.) Also: a light meal at any…

a snack before a meal.

an eleven-o'-clock meal, a luncheon.

Chiefly British regional. More generally: food, esp. food taken by a worker, schoolchild, etc., to be consumed during the course of the day. Now rare…

A small dinner; (originally) a formal or celebratory dinner for a small party of people; (now usually) a light meal eaten for dinner.

In Spanish-speaking contexts: a light meal, esp. one taken in the afternoon.

Chiefly with singular agreement. Elevens; light refreshment about 11 a.m.

a small quantity of food to eat; (in later use chiefly) a light dish or snack, esp. one that is offered on a menu; = lite bite n. Cf. bite, n. 3a.

a smoke and a drink of water.

A snack, a meal; a hot drink accompanied by food.

spec. a tray of food brought to one not able or not wishing to eat at table; hence (loosely), a light snack.

(see quot. 1966).

Chiefly North American. A snack eaten between meals; a nibble.

Any salty or savoury snack.

In commercial use: snacks (see snack, n.2 4b).

colloquial. A small amount of food; a small snack.

In South Asian cookery: a snack or salad consisting of chopped and spiced fruit or vegetables. Frequently attributive or as postmodifier.

a cold meal, usually including bread and cheese, typically with pickle and salad, often served in public houses at lunchtime.

Food; esp. snack food.

a snack taken to school by children to eat during the morning break; (also) the break itself.

a snack.

a small quantity of food to eat; (in later use chiefly) a light dish or snack, esp. one that is offered on a menu; = light bite n. at light, adj.1 n.2…

Originally U.S. A snack; spec. one eaten after taking marijuana. Usually in plural.

In the genitive: = ploughman's lunch n. at compounds 2.

A light savoury snack served alongside a (usually alcoholic) drink, typically to whet the appetite before a meal. Chiefly in plural.