What does school dinner lady mean?

school dinner lady

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

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"The action is in support of schooldinner ladies who have been told by the county council that their holiday pay is being stopped."
"Jill Bennett recreates her superb characterisation of a school-dinners’ lady with an appetite more for a bit of roly-poly than jam."

school dinner ladies (plural) school-dinner lady (alternative)

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