Definition of roadhouse
:an inn or tavern usually outside city limits providing liquor and usually meals, dancing, and often gambling
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stopped at a roadhouse for some drinks and a little line dancing
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A far cry from the barns and roadhouses that dot this countryside, the century-old museum building would look more at home on Portland’s South Park Blocks, 100 miles west.
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June 16: 2-4 p.m., Cool Rockin' Daddy (roadhouse-style six-piece band); 5-7:30 p.m., Louie Zagoras and Rollover (bluesy roots rock); 8:30-11 p.m., Gooroos (radio superhits).
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Gregg Allman’s voice carried the history of the South: the roadhouse bars, the churches, the gravel roads.
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The roadhouse, the back porch, the juke joint, the church, the farm, the highway.
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The shotgun-shack space is decked out in roadhouse finery, its walls lined with historic beer signs, old license plates and a subscription box for The Oregonian.
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At each subsequent hole—almost always located in a different town or roadhouse—the adventure is magnificent.
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In its pages are tried-and-true recipes (and hunger-inducing color photos), many sourced from roadhouse restaurants and vintage cookbooks.
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Alternative-pop singer Lorde played a surprise show for a few hundred fans at a quirky roadhouse in the California desert on Friday, yet the scope of her new, full-scale live show remained a mystery.
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First Known Use of roadhouse
1857
roadhouse Synonyms
Synonyms
bistro, boîte, cabaret, café (also cafe), club, nightspot, nitery (also niterie), nightclub, supper clubRelated Words
a-go-go, disco, discotheque (or discothéque); barroom, pub [chiefly British], public house [chiefly British], saloon, tavern; clip joint [slang], dive, honky-tonk, key club, speakeasy; canteen, watering hole, watering placeROADHOUSE Defined for English Language Learners
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