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means A casual, inexpensive restaurant — often a long, narrow, counter-and-booth sort of place — serving simple food like eggs and burgers at all hours.

from Comes from 'dine,' which traces back through French 'dîner' to Vulgar Latin roots meaning to break one's fast — a distant cousin of 'disjejunare.' The American 'diner' specifically grew out of horse-drawn 'dining cars' and lunch wagons of the late 1800s, which sold food to night-shift workers; many were literally built from retired railroad dining cars, which is how the elongated, stainless-steel-and-booth shape became the icon it is today.