breakfast in bed

English

Noun

breakfast in bed (plural breakfasts in bed)

1. Breakfast served to one in bed upon waking.

Verb

breakfast in bed (third-person singular simple present breakfasts in bed, present participle breakfasting in bed, simple past and past participle breakfasted in bed)

1. (intransitive) To enjoy one's breakfast while in bed.
   • 1876, Charles James Dunphie, The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman‎, page 67:

     Not that I "go in" for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.