café de move-on, noun phrase

/ˌkæfeɪ də ˈmuːvɒn/
Origin:
Pseudo-FrenchShow more Jocular Pseudo-French formation, referring both to the mobile nature of the cart and to the need to ‘move on’ when so ordered by the authorities.
A small mobile canteen catering for the needs of workers at their places of work, and able to change its venue rapidly to escape the attention of officialdom. See also koffie kar.
c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) 99I rader go by die cafe der move-on for er oulap coffee en er Scots bun.
1936 A.G. Thompson in Afr. Observer Vol.4 No.4, 59In a corner of the compound a tailor with his sewing machine is patching trousers. There is a ‘Cafe de move on’ from which bread and lemonade can be obtained.
1952 B. Davidson Report on Sn Afr. 132The café de move-on is necessary to the workers of Moroka..if they are not to go without food throughout the day, or are to bring their daily meal with them...The café de move-on..failed, and fails, to meet the requirements of ‘municipal order’. After all, it is no more than a street canteen,..where natives buy bread or cake and coffee.
1952 B. Davidson Report on Sn Afr. 133The municipal authorities..declared war on the cafés de move-on, and said that these little coffee-carts must vanish from the streets...The authorities began prosecuting the owners of cafés de move-on who had failed to move on.
[1990 City Press 4 Feb. 6Bessie..was running a profitable pavement shebeen in the city. It was never situated in the same place for any length of time, but often changed venues — a sort of tavern de-move-on.]
1992 A. Swerdlow on Radio South Africa 23 Aug.Cafés de move-on and hot-dog stands.
A small mobile canteen catering for the needs of workers at their places of work, and able to change its venue rapidly to escape the attention of officialdom.
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