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===Verb===
{{en-verb|pres_ptc2=coffee-ing|past2=coffee-ed}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To drink coffee.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1839|author=Thomas Chandler Haliburton|title=The Clockmaker|passage=I rushed into my cabin, '''coffeed''', wined, and went to bed sobbing.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Journal of François Mignon|date=24 January 1956|page=7794|passage=I '''coffee-ed''' with your girl friend this morning, her daughter having long since gone to town to make some final arrangements about a Catholic Daughters' frolic for tonight.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Western Fisheries|year=1969|page=51|passage=A while back while '''coffee-ing''' with friends, the men were discussing new water tanks, the different makes, costs, etc.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Goldman|authorlink=William Goldman|title=[[w:Magic (novel)|Magic]]|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Delacorte Press|year=1976|page=10|isbn=0-440-05159-2|passage=“Can I at least make you some coffee?” “I’m not in the habit of '''coffee-ing''' with strange women.”}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Daisy Hepburn|chapter=The Farmer|title=Lead, Follow Or Get Out of the Way!|location=Ventura, Calif.|publisher=Regal Books|year=1982|page=98|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/leadfolloworgeto00hep_co8/page/98/mode/1up|passage=While watching television or '''coffee-ing''' with a neighbor tape all your wonderful stuff onto 8½-by-11-inch sheets of paper.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Rachel Cohn|authorlink=Rachel Cohn|title=[[w:Gingerbread (Cohn novel)|Gingerbread]]|publisher=[[w:Simon & Schuster|Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers]]|year=2002|pages=64–65|isbn=0-689-84337-2|passage=“At least my parents stick around!” I said back as I paced. I instantly regretted my comeback but that’s the thing about unkind words: You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it’s hard when you’re all '''coffee-ed''' up, and (b) you can’t take it back, ever.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Larry Baker|title=Athens, America|publisher=First Coast Books|year=2005|page=252|isbn=0-9755724-0-7|passage=They had been at the HyVee deli that night, '''coffee’ed''' up and continuing a late night discussion of angels on the heads of pins, or whatever Episcopalians discuss, three wise men who had walked out of the HyVee to enjoy the warm September air,{{nb...}}.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Jeff Collignon|title=The Glass Eye of Hell|year=2010|page=160|isbn=978-0-557-31841-4|passage=Stopped at a 7/eleven, '''coffee-ed''' up, washed down four dex, hit the Interstate.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Patrick Day|title=Too Late in the Afternoon: One Man's Triumph Over Depression|passage=It was exactly 11 a.m. We had been '''coffeeing''' for one hour, and our coffee cups were empty.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=N.S. David|title=TLC (Tranquility Logistics Corporation)|publisher={{w|AuthorHouse}}|year=2010|page=31|isbn=978-1-4520-5105-5|passage=Very little was spoken as they '''coffee-ed''' up and she cut the peppers.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Terrence Douglas|chapter=Dead Princess|title=Does a Footstep Linger?|location=Bloomington, Ind.|publisher=[[w:iUniverse|iUniverse, Inc.]]|year=2011|page=55|isbn=978-1-4620-3852-7|passage=Woke to Ravel’s ''Pavane For Dead Princess'', / '''Coffee-ed''' with Simone’s ''I Get Along Without You Very Well'' – of course I do.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Kat Meads|title=2:12 a.m.|location=Nacogdoches, Tex.publisher={{w|Stephen F. Austin State University}} Press|year=2013|page=65|passage=I, myself, have been awake since three, dressed since four, '''coffee-ed''' up since five.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Bett Taylor|chapter=The Operation|title=Coffee Breaks, Short Stories and Poems|publisher={{w|Xlibris}}|year=2013|page=113|isbn=978-1-4836-0761-0|passage=“Hi! Didn’t think you would be '''coffee-ing''' again. Out and about so soon after your op?”}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Johnny D. Boggs|title=Hard Winter: A Western Story|publisher={{w|Skyhorse Publishing}}|year=2013|passage=Well, one morning after I had '''coffee-ed''' up and went to fork hay into the corrals, I spied a rider.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Doug Jordan|title=The Maxim Chronicles: A Year with a Champion Poodle|publisher=AFS Publishing|year=2016|page=181|isbn=978-1-365-20018-2|passage=Madelyn was awake around 6:30 but she was only six months old and had not yet developed pre-Christmas excitement; Michael got her changed and bottled up (and himself '''coffee-ed''' up) well before anybody else stirred.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Rebecca Crowley|title=Off the Record|series=The London Phoenix Series|publisher=Tule Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-1-951190-81-1|passage=“{{...|nospace=1}}The two of you should get together for coffee one of these days. I’ll introduce you after the service.” “Sure, Gran,” Sophie said easily, well used to these monthly matchmaking efforts. Ealing was in fact rather far, and frankly she had no intention of '''coffee-ing''' with Mark Bloom either way, but she’d long learned it was best just to nod along with her grandmother’s non-stop attempts to marry her off.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|work={{w|The Jerusalem Post}}|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/three-ladies-three-lattes-still-coffee-ing-after-all-these-years-656966|date=28 January 2021|passage=Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Still '''coffee-ing''' after all these years}}
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