dinner lady

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Ellipsis of school dinner lady.

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dinner lady (plural dinner ladies)

  1. (British, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.
    Synonyms: (US) lunch lady, (UK) school dinner lady
    • 2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.

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