do lunch

English

Verb

do lunch (third-person singular simple present does lunch, present participle doing lunch, simple past did lunch, past participle done lunch)

1. To have a lunchtime meeting, usually at a restaurant.
   • 2008, Clyde Dowell II, Women Can't Play, page 78:

     The two women exchanged phone numbers and promised to do lunch. In Sharon's world, a promise to do lunch was not to be taken lightly and after a lengthy phone conversation Sunday evening, she decided that Monday would be a good day to have lunch with their new found friends.

   • 2014, Mary Monroe, God Ain't Blind:

     I thought you said you do lunch with a lot of the people you do business with.

   • 2014, Geoffrey Gilson, Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch, page 16:

     We'd done lunch in one of the older hostelries in the historic part of Beaconsfield, and were now off on a meandering journey through the rural delights of western England.

   • 2018, Tony McDowell, How Did I Get Here?, page 54:

     In those days business lunches were the norm and usually consisted of a couple of pints, but I very rarely did lunch.