▪ I. caff
(kæf)
Vulgar or jocular slang for café. Also attrib.
| 1931 D. Morse-Boycott We do see Life! i. 15, I was sitting in a caff in Compton Street. 1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 28 Caff boys, the youths and men, the ‘spivs’ and ‘wide boys’, who hang around certain cafés. 1959 G. Freeman Jack would be a Gentleman ix. 191 We'll find a caff somewhere an' 'ave our food out. 1959 Daily Mail 5 Mar. 7/1 The news reached Chrimes, 30-year-old boss of the low-life ‘caff society’ with his headquarters in a juke-box cafe in Uxbridge. |
▪ II. caff
obs. var. of chafe v. to warm.