Starbucks
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- Royaume-Uni//ˈstɑːˌbʌks//
- États-Unis//ˈstɑɹˌbʌks//
A widespread chain of coffee shops.
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A widespread chain of coffee shops.
Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe.
Consider the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ...
On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine.
Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.”
Étymologie
From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.
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A coffee from Starbucks.
I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose.
One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.”
I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks.
“Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.”
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Aussi une forme de Starbuckplural of Starbuck (a surname)
Formes
- pluriel
- Starbuckses
Starbucks · A widespread chain of coffee shops.
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