breastaurant

English

Etymology

1990s: blend of breast +‎ restaurant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

breastaurant (plural breastaurants)

1. (informal) A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
   • 1993 October 6, “Cheap Thrills”, in The Roanoke Times:

     Two things attracted Andrew Rodgers and his bachelor-party buddies to Hooters of Virginia, Inc., Roanoke's first and only “breastaurant.”

   • 1995 June 4, Denise Flaim, “Is Hooters Too Hot for the Island?”, in Newsday:

     And feminists aren't the only ones complaining about the Island's inaugural “breastaurant”: Concerned parents whose broods play in the park across the street wonder how to shield them from the chain's double-entendre name, which is about as sophisticated as those looseleaf notes you furtively passed in high school health class.

   • 2012, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums, Lyons Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras.

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2. (informal, humorous) A lactating woman or her breasts, viewed as a source of nutrition for a child.
   • 1998, Janet Tamoro, So That's What They're For!: Breastfeeding Basics, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 193:

     Helen calls her chest the “breastaurant.” By the time Lili was three months old, Helen says, breastfeeding — oh, excuse me, eating at the breastaurant — became a piece of cake.

   • 1999, Pregnancy Fitness, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 157:

     No small wonder, since your little one uses your breasts as everything from food supply to a source of comfort. Although time is the best healer, there are some things you can do until your body gets used to being a “breastaurant”: […]

   • 2000 November 12, Lea Haravon Collins, “BST (Baby Standard Time) always means serious adjustment”, in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

     After a long feed, she's sleeping. I take this opportunity to transform from nurser to writer, and I don't know how much time I have until I must, Supermanlike, make the quick change back into “breastaurant” again.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:breastaurant.

Translations

restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波霸餐廳／波霸餐厅 (bōbà cāntīng)

• Finnish: tissiravintola, tissibaari
• Italian: ristorante a luci rosse m
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see restauracja (pl) f
• Russian: брестора́н m (brestorán), сиськафе́ n (sisʹkafɛ́)

breastfeeding woman as a source of nutrition

• Finnish: imettäjä (fi)
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see matka (pl) f

Anagrams

• subtartarean