coffee-and

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of coffee and cake.

Adjective

coffee-and (not comparable)

(slang, derogatory) Cheap, second-rate.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow; Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 23:
  “That coffee-an’ mac you got,” a French girl would crack to a straight one, and then it was on—hair came out by the handful, some bleached and some unbleached.

Further reading

Jonathon Green (2023), “coffee-and adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

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