clip joint

slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clip joint While not all clip joints offer refreshments, a fair number find this is a popular extra in a competitive industry. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clip joint
Noun
  • Beer- and kid-friendly Opening this weekend on the Boise Bench, Chits & Chats essentially is part restaurant, part pub, part neighborhood public house — with a library of games for rent.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For something more relaxed, The Wigmore serves as the hotel’s tavern, styled after a Victorian public house but refined.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sit at the Bar September, coined by 86-year-old real estate agent and TikTok influencer Laurie Cooper, encourages young singles to go old-school and head to a local watering hole solo to meet people the analog way.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Built by George Washington’s youngest brother, the tavern operated for 35 years as a lively inn and watering hole.
    Madeline Weinfield, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Each area offers a sense of intimacy and comfort, with the moodiness of a speakeasy from the terrazzo tabletops to the warm color palette of brass, deep blue and emerald green.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The hotel has a speakeasy called the Social Outlaw as well as fine dining options at its Sagewind restaurant.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An 1856 drawing of a popular San Francisco saloon known as the Cobweb Palace depicts a crowd of humans joined by two dogs, a pig, a parrot, and six monkeys.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Main Street, running from the riverfront to Seventh Street, was lined with restaurants, saloons, offices, and shops.
    Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Multiple agencies from Texas and Louisiana, including dive teams, participated in the search.
    Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For Clarke, the 1992 dive would be his last.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The company started in downtown Chicago in 1990 and calls itself the original gastrobar, which means a bar or pub atmosphere that serves high-quality small bites and food.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Beard would often mark the end of a season by going to a pub near the club’s ground with his backroom staff.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That usually meant going to taverns and bars, and enduring long travel days by horse and buggy.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Over the years, it has been used by different factories, a tavern and GFiber.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bonds in Task are between men and other men, whether the backdrop is a barroom or a church; the loyalties, power structures, rivalries, and affections are all patriarchal.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The music that accompanies her is just as stick-to-the-ribs earthy, dipped in roadhouse soul, folkish hymns, barroom rock, and blues, without sounding like House of Blues nostalgia.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Clip joint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clip%20joint. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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