# Starbucks
## English
### Etymology

From Starbuck (surname) +‎ -s.
* (chain of coffee shops): 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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/
* (US) IPA: /ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

Starbucks (plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
* A widespread chain of coffee shops.
** 2005 April 30, Melinda Newman, “Q&A”, in Billboard, number 18, page 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.
** 2008, Andrew M. Jones, The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation, →ISBN: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': ...
** 2010, Michael Salvatore, {Between} Boyfriends, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 49: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.
** 2013, Taylor Clark, Starbucked, →ISBN:Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.”
** 2015, O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Linda Ferrell, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, 10th edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 397:Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other.
** 2014, George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society, →ISBN: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.”

#### Derived terms

* 'Bucks
* Starbies
* Starbucksification

#### Translations
### Noun

Starbucks (countable and uncountable, plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
* (metonymically) A coffee from Starbucks.
** 2009, Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel, page 163:I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose.
** 2009, Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56: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.”
** 2010, Timothy, “How My Life Changed”, in Kevin Leman, Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days, Revell, →ISBN, page 73:I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks.
** 2015, Valerie Goldsilk, Sins of Our Sisters, Whiskey Creek Press, →ISBN:“Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.”
** 2017, Karen Adkins, Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 239: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.

### Proper noun

Starbucks
* plural of Starbuck (surname)

### See also

* Tim Hortons, often claimed the Canadian equivalent of the chain

### Anagrams

* subtracks