tearoom

Meanings

Plural: tearooms

Noun

• a restaurant where tea and light meals are available
• A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
• A public lavatory, especially (US, gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for gay men.
• A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

Synonyms

bathroom, beat, bog, bogger, brasco, can, carsey, cloaca, closet, closet of decency, closet of ease, cludgie, cottage, crapper, dike, dunny, facilities, geography, gingerbread office, House of Lords, house of office, jacks, jacques, jakes, john, johnny, karzy, khazi, kocay, ladies and gentlemen, latrine, lats, lav, lavabo, lavatory, lavvy, loo, necessarium, necessary, necessary place, necessary room, neddy, netty, office, office of ease, place, potty, privy, purging place, restroom, shield, shitter, siege, six, small room, smallest room, tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop, throne room, thunderbox, toilet, toilet room, urinal, urination station, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, washroom, water closet, WC, withdraught