Sailor finishing breakfast in the motel maybe (7)
I believe the answer is:
matelot
'sailor' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'finishing breakfast in the motel maybe' is the wordplay.
'finishing breakfast' becomes 'at' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in the' is an insertion indicator.
'maybe' indicates anagramming the letters.
'motel' anagrammed gives 'melot'.
'at' inserted inside 'melot' is 'MATELOT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for matelot that I've seen before include "One at sea" , "A lot met (anag) - sailor" , "Rating" , "Sailor (slang from French)" , "One sailor" .)