Starbucks

English Pronunciation en /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ UK en /ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/ US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Starbucks.wav US Etymology 1 en :af Starbuck -s<id:possessive> 1 From en Starbuck<pos:surname> -s (likely originating from the locative, but stylized without the apostrophe). 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. Proper noun thumb + * A widespread chain of coffee shops. en 'Bucks<l:slang> S'bucks<l:colloquial> Shitbucks<l:vulgar,derogatory,rare> Starbies<l:slang> en Melinda Newman Q&A Billboard 18 30 April 2005 31 Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe. en 2008 The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation Andrew M. Jones 0955008158 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': ... en Michael Salvatore {Between} Boyfriends Kensington Books 2010 49 978-0-7582-4683-7 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. en 2013 Starbucked Taylor Clark 1444765388 Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.” en O. C. Ferrell; John Fraedrich; Linda Ferrell Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases 10th Cengage Learning 2015 397 978-1-285-42371-5 Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other. en 2014 The McDonaldization of Society George Ritzer 148335895X Said the CEO of the nearly 500-plus store Caribou Coffee chain, “I got into the business because of what they [Starbucks] created.” In China, a small chain, Real Brewed Tea, aims to be “the Starbucks of tea.” Jordan Valinsky Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back at a higher price https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/business/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte-2022 2022-08-29 Also returning is Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, an iced-drink topped with pumpkin cream cold foam and a dusting of pumpkin spice that Starbucks launched in 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20260530155649/https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/business/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte-2022/ 30 May 2026 Derived terms en 'Bucks S'bucks Shitbucks Starbies Starbucksification Translations chain of coffee shops Arabic: ar سْتَارْبَكْس m Armenian: hy Սթարբաքս Belarusian: be Ста́рбакс m Bengali: bn স্টারবাক্স Bulgarian: bg Ста́рбъкс m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 士打北 Mandarin: cmn 星巴克 Xīngbākè Finnish: fi Starbucks Georgian: ka სტარბაქსი Greek: el Σταρμπαξ Gujarati: gu સ્ટાર્બક્સ Hebrew: he סטארבקס starbaks Hindi: hi स्टारबक्स Japanese: ja スターバックス Sutābakkusu, ja スタバ Sutaba Javanese: jv ꦱ꧀ꦛꦴꦂꦧꦏ꧀ꦱ꧀ Kannada: kn ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಬಕ್ಸ್ Korean: ko ^스타벅스 Marathi: mr स्टार्बक्स Mongolian: mn ᠰᠢᠩ ᠪᠠ ᠺᠧ Persian: fa استارباکس estârbâks Portuguese: pt Starbucks m Russian: ru Ста́рбакс m Sinhalese: si ස්ටාර්බක්ස්, si ස්ටාර්‍බක්ස් Sundanese: su ᮞ᮪ᮒᮁᮘᮊ᮪ᮞ᮪ Tagalog: tl Starbucks Telugu: te స్టార్బక్స్ Thai: th สตาร์บัคส์ Ukrainian: uk Ста́рбакс m Urdu: ur سٹاربکس sṭārbaks Uyghur: ug ستارباكس Noun ~ + * en metonymy A coffee from Starbucks. en Starbies#Noun slang en Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel 163 Cheyenne McCray 2009 I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose. en Bryant Simon Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks w:University of California Press 2009 56 978-0-520-26106-8 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.” en Timothy How My Life Changed Kevin Leman Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days Revell 2010 73 978-0-8007-1933-3 I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks. en Valerie Goldsilk Sins of Our Sisters Whiskey Creek Press 2015 978-1-63355-769-7 “Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.” en Karen Adkins Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground w:Palgrave Macmillan 2017 239 978-3-319-47839-5 US Weekly’s regular photographic feature, “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” which features celebrities engaged in such mundanities as pumping their own gas or drinking Starbucks, is a direct visual demonstration of this condescending simulated intimacy. See also en Tim Hortons Etymology 2 Proper noun en proper noun form en Starbuck a surname Anagrams en abckrsstu subtracks en Coffee