The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BREAKFAST
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More clues leading to the result BREAKFAST
- Meal of lean chicken meat featuring American Kentucky- fried prime cuts
- Interrupt hurried meal
- Holiday firm supplying meal
- Secured, after pause for a meal
- Getting hold of recipe, magistrate fixed a meal
- Fat baker’s cooked meal
- Unusually fat baker’s producing croissants?
- Snout grabs first of rations, quick to get meal
- Piece of chicken covering an unfinished KFC meal
- What fat bakers cook up
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What does BREAKFAST mean?
BREAKFAST noun- The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- To eat the morning meal.
- To serve breakfast to.