Usually means: All-you-can-eat meal service style.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buffet, buffet, buffet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buffet, buffet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buffet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buffet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buffet, buffet: Wordnik
  7. buffet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buffet: Wiktionary
  9. buffet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buffet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buffet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buffet, buffet: Dictionary.com
  13. buffet (n.), buffet (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buffet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buffet (disambiguation), Buffet (surname), Buffet, The Buffet (Chardin), The Buffet (play), The Buffet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buffet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buffet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buffet: Rhymezone
  19. Buffet, buffet, buffet, buffet (het), buffet (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buffet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. buffet: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. buffet: Free Dictionary
  23. buffet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. buffet: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. buffet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Buffet (meal), buffet: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buffet (meal), buffet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buffet: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Buffet, buffet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buffet: TheFurniture.com
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See buffeted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
noun:  Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
noun:  A small low stool; a hassock.
noun:  (countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
noun:  (aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
verb:  To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
verb:  To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
verb:  (intransitive) To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

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