all-you-can-eat
/ˌɔːljəkənˈiːt/ /ˌɔːljuːkənˈiːt/originally US
adjective
Of, relating to, or designating a restaurant meal at which one may eat an unlimited amount of food (usually from a buffet), typically for a fixed price. Also in extended use: designating a service offering unlimited availability or use, especially for a single fee or at a flat rate.
noun
An all-you-can-eat offer or meal.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Brownsville, Texas). From all you can eat (followed by a price), a slogan in restaurant advertisements from all noun + you adjective noun + can + eat.
- neuroelectricity
- neuroembryologic
- recurrent series
- recurrer
- recurring decimal
- recurringly
- recurring series
- recurring utterance
- recursant
- recurse
- recursion
- recursion formula
- recursive
- recursive definition
- recursive function
- recursively
- recursiveness
- recursive relation
- recursive set
- recursivity
- recurvant
- recurvate
- recurvation
- recurvature
- recurve