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alehouse

noun

Definition of alehouse

as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of alehouse At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time. — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026 Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate. — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025 On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025 The classic alehouse is a stone’s throw away from Leeds’ home ground, and on April 28, the fans were in a celebratory mood. — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 May 2025 This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen. — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024 The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse. — Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022 In the late seventies, the bar came under the ownership of the proprietor of a now defunct Bronx alehouse called the Liffy, like the river. — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017

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Noun

Hackney on Harms is actually the original Hackney’s, a tavern and roadhouse that opened after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s.

— Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
That extra dose of voyeurism, for an audience that’s constantly being let in on deep and awkward personal secrets from these characters, can happen because of the beautifully overstuffed roadhouse setting designed by Tim Mackabee.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of roadhouse

Noun

For hard evidence of this, go to up-and-coming Micklegate Street, a cobbled thoroughfare lined with intimate eateries like cottagecore coffeehouse Partisan, tapas spot Sotano, and contemporary British bistros Skosh and The Rattle Owl.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Back at the restaurant, which was transformed into a simple Italian bistro for their Dogue cover shoot, Sansa and Bad Bunny enjoyed a spaghetti dinner worthy of a Lady and the Tramp reboot.

— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of bistro

Noun

In December, at least 25 people were killed after a fire ripped through a popular nightclub in western Goa state.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Well past midnight one day this spring, three police officers pulled up to a nightclub where a man was stomping on a young woman lying on the sidewalk.

— Brad Heath, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of nightclub

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So the players will get a day off to cool down but have to spend the night at the pub quiz in teams of Ted’s choosing, never mind the cliques.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Over the opening weekend of the Premier League season, versions of this conversation are ubiquitous across the country — in pubs, queues at burger vans, stadiums, online, at home.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of pub

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Regan is accused of assaulting a fellow trooper at the ReelHouse brewpub in Marina Bay on June 26 in a one-sided fight that was shown in a video taken off the bar’s security camera.

— Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
Douglas County, Nevada, sheriff’s deputies said the charges stemmed from a verbal and physical altercation with a brewpub employee, the Daily Tribune reported at the time.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of brewpub

Noun

Under various owners, Glen View House operated for decades as a tavern and restaurant before closing in March 2023.

— Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Dig Into a Classic Burger at Redamak’s Redamak’s has been flipping its famous cheeseburgers in New Buffalo since 1946, when George and Mary Redamak turned a humble lakeside tavern into a summer staple.

— Amy Bizzarri, Midwest Living, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of tavern

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While all of the women found their respective moment to shine, no one rose to the occasion quite like Luann de Lesseps, who seemingly decided on her own that Kyle’s white party would be the perfect backdrop for a cabaret performance like none other.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Tucked at the back of one barber shop is Screaming Alley, a cabaret production company supporting independent artists.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of cabaret

Noun

Her SongTeller Hotel in Nashville — which includes two live music venues, a speakeasy, a cafe, and the Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum — is scheduled to open next month.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2026
Hit Audubon’s Hotel + Restaurant for pasta before grabbing a nightcap paired with live music at its speakeasy-style listening room, the Midnight Slip.

— Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2026

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