The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
LOCOMOTE
travel, go, move, locomote
(verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; “How fast does your new car go?”; “We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus”; “The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect”; “The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell”; “news travelled fast”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
locomote (third-person singular simple present locomotes, present participle locomoting, simple past and past participle locomoted)
(now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).
Source: Wiktionary
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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