All 3 Uses of
calorie
in
Me Before You
- I liked the tourists, who stopped on their walk up to and down from the castle, the shrieking schoolchildren, who stopped by after school, the regulars from the offices across the road, and Nina and Cherie, the hairdressers, who knew the calorie count of every single item the Buttered Bun had to offer.†
p. 11.2
- Later I might take him a drink of water, or one of the calorie-filled drinks that were supposed to keep his weight up and looked like pastel-colored wallpaper paste, or give him his food.†
p. 49.6
- And then on Thursday, just as I was mixing Will's midmorning, high-calorie drink, I heard Mrs. Traynor's voice in the hall.†
p. 52.1 *
Definition:
a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of potential weight gain the body gets from food