the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To lunch; take tiffin.
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n. a midday meal
Word Usage
"Mr. Shinde says the restaurant no longer users the stainless-steel containers of the its namesake — "tiffin" is the container, and "wallah" the delivery guy — but lunch still arrives compartmentalized, and cheap."