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Definition of half-caf in English: half-cafadjective Denoting a drink of coffee with caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee mixed in equal parts, so as to make coffee with half the normal level of caffeine. Example sentencesExamples - She jumped up to take pictures of passing boats and sipped on a half-caf iced soy latte.
- The average Joe who was happy with any old cup of joe a few years ago is now ordering a daily skinny latte (half-caf, please) and expecting every cup of drip coffee to be fresh and flavorful.
- You desperately want to stop for a half-caf non-fat no-whip mocha and a muffin, but you're off carbs until at least Saturday.
- Greenwald informs her readers that the couple served half-caf vanilla lattes at their wedding reception.
- You'll want yours half-caf.
- Up in my county, I have never spotted a celebrity, have never been sideswiped by a driver talking on a cell phone, wouldn't know where to get a half-caf latte or a copy of W.
- I have decided to give up that half-caf, extra-shot caramel macchiato I order at Starbucks twice every day.
- Susan took a sip off her Venti skim half-caf one Splenda sugar-free vanilla extra hot latte.
- Since the arrival of the venti half-caf latte in the '90s, Americans have gotten used to the idea of the $3 (or more) cup of coffee.
- They'll be liable to spill their half-caf low-fat soy green tea chai latte on your head.
- My respect—not to mention awe—grows by the second as Denny, Moira & Co dish out the half caf half decaf triple semi-skimmed extra hot mochas or triple espresso companas with an ease bordering on the nonchalant.
noun A drink of coffee made using caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee mixed in equal parts. customers queued up for morning lattes, half-cafs, and mochas mass noun he's down to about one cup of half-caf a day Example sentencesExamples - It's just coffee qua coffee—it's not Blue Mountain Hazelnut Half-Caf or Sudanese Vanilla with Special Chicory Enzymes or any of that bushwa.
- I have been doing half-cafs in the am, but it's going to be really hard to cut out the mid morning coffee and mid afternoon tea.
- Meanwhile, next door at Seattle's Best Coffee, a steady stream of customers orders lattes and half-cafs.
- I drank either total decaf or half cafs while pregnant.
- If you only knew how addicted I am to my no-foam half-cafs, you’d be giggling as hard as I am.
- Well this was my final day of half-cafs and tomorrow it's on to decaf.
- Cut the caffeine: Settle for a "half-caf" or decaf.
- Try an occasional decaf or do what I do and order mostly half-cafs.
- There wouldn't have been many ubiquitous 'drive-thru' Espresso coffee shops, routinely offering forty types of coffee, including a 'half-caf' - a cross between a proper espresso and a decaffeinated one.
- Being on decaf (ok, I cheat in the mornings with half cafs) for the time being, I need milk in my cup.
Origin 1990s: from half + caffeine or caffeinated, on the pattern of decaf. Definition of half-caf in US English: half-cafadjective Denoting a drink of coffee with caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee mixed in equal parts, so as to make coffee with half the normal level of caffeine. Example sentencesExamples - They'll be liable to spill their half-caf low-fat soy green tea chai latte on your head.
- Up in my county, I have never spotted a celebrity, have never been sideswiped by a driver talking on a cell phone, wouldn't know where to get a half-caf latte or a copy of W.
- Susan took a sip off her Venti skim half-caf one Splenda sugar-free vanilla extra hot latte.
- Greenwald informs her readers that the couple served half-caf vanilla lattes at their wedding reception.
- She jumped up to take pictures of passing boats and sipped on a half-caf iced soy latte.
- My respect—not to mention awe—grows by the second as Denny, Moira & Co dish out the half caf half decaf triple semi-skimmed extra hot mochas or triple espresso companas with an ease bordering on the nonchalant.
- The average Joe who was happy with any old cup of joe a few years ago is now ordering a daily skinny latte (half-caf, please) and expecting every cup of drip coffee to be fresh and flavorful.
- You'll want yours half-caf.
- I have decided to give up that half-caf, extra-shot caramel macchiato I order at Starbucks twice every day.
- You desperately want to stop for a half-caf non-fat no-whip mocha and a muffin, but you're off carbs until at least Saturday.
- Since the arrival of the venti half-caf latte in the '90s, Americans have gotten used to the idea of the $3 (or more) cup of coffee.
noun A drink of coffee made using caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee mixed in equal parts. customers queued up for morning lattes, half-cafs, and mochas mass noun he's down to about one cup of half-caf a day Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, next door at Seattle's Best Coffee, a steady stream of customers orders lattes and half-cafs.
- If you only knew how addicted I am to my no-foam half-cafs, you’d be giggling as hard as I am.
- Try an occasional decaf or do what I do and order mostly half-cafs.
- Being on decaf (ok, I cheat in the mornings with half cafs) for the time being, I need milk in my cup.
- Well this was my final day of half-cafs and tomorrow it's on to decaf.
- I have been doing half-cafs in the am, but it's going to be really hard to cut out the mid morning coffee and mid afternoon tea.
- There wouldn't have been many ubiquitous 'drive-thru' Espresso coffee shops, routinely offering forty types of coffee, including a 'half-caf' - a cross between a proper espresso and a decaffeinated one.
- I drank either total decaf or half cafs while pregnant.
- Cut the caffeine: Settle for a "half-caf" or decaf.
- It's just coffee qua coffee—it's not Blue Mountain Hazelnut Half-Caf or Sudanese Vanilla with Special Chicory Enzymes or any of that bushwa.
Origin 1990s: from half + caffeine or caffeinated, on the pattern of decaf. |