The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
BECKED
Verb
becked
simple past tense and past participle of beck
Anagrams
• bedeck
Source: Wiktionary
BECK
Beck, n.
Definition: See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.
Beck, n. Etym: [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.]
Definition: A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.
Beck, n.
Definition: A vat. See Back.
Beck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Becked (; p. pr. & vb. n. Becking.] Etym: [Contr. of beckon.]
Definition: To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.
Beck, v. t.
Definition: To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.
Beck, n.
Definition: A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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