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barrelhouse

noun

Definition of barrelhouse

as in roadhouse

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Recent Examples of barrelhouse The whiskey is composed of five barrel-proof batches drawn from just 129 barrels across three barrelhouses. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026 And one that can evidently stand up to plenty of time in the barrelhouse. — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 Flying Leap Vineyards Located in the heart of scenic southern Arizona, Flying Leap Vineyards has a distillery, barrelhouse, tasting room, and event center. — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2024 Many of the new barrelhouses are being built with industrial revenue bonds exempting them from property taxes for years or decades. — Travis Loller, Fortune, 8 July 2023 Jack Daniel's operation there has 92 barrelhouses storing more than 2 million barrels. — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023

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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

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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

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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

Definition of speakeasy

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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

Definition of alehouse

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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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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

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Throughout their first five albums, the band has spun a web, not unlike the orb weavers of their native Virginia, that marries country, rock, honky-tonk grit and Appalachian soul with rowdy barroom energy.

— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
This fine-dining restaurant puts as much care into its barroom burger as its seven-course tasting menu, letting its open hearth work magic on the double-decker beauty.

— Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 6 May 2026

Definition of barroom

Noun

As a sports bar concept, there’s nothing that matters more than having any game, any time, for customers walking into the establishment.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
In the fall of 1995, three decades after the March on Washington, the sports bar and restaurant chain Hooters staged a march of its own.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of sports bar

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