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Definition of cakeage in English:

cakeage

noun

informal

  • A charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake that they have not supplied themselves.

    • ‘they told me I was welcome to bring a birthday cake and there would be no cakeage’
    • ‘the standard cakeage rate in Melbourne was $3.50 a head’

Pronunciation

cakeage

/ˈkākij/ /ˈkeɪkɪdʒ/

Origin

1990s (originally Australian): from cake + -age, on the pattern of corkage.