anticoffee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ coffee

Adjective[edit]

anticoffee (comparative more anticoffee, superlative most anticoffee)

  1. Opposing coffee (the drink).
    • 2003, W. Steven Pray, A history of nonprescription product regulation, page 72:
      He further commented that "there is a day coming when there will be a campaign against coffee drinking, and it will assume the same importance as against alcohol." As he was wont to do, he delivered his anticoffee remarks at the invitation of the National Coffee Roaster's Association.
    • 2012, Robert Liberles, Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany, page 32:
      In contrast, his essay on coffee offered no more than a rambling and trite presentation of the arguments against anticoffee legislation.

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