clip joint

slang

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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
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Noun
  • The Lone Goat This English pub, which draws inspiration from public houses and taverns of London, is on the ground floor of the historic Metropolitan Building in downtown Detroit.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Dave Cunningham, who opened the Comet, a Gen-X-era public house that helped spark a renaissance in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood, died suddenly at his home on Tuesday.
    Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, these Southern watering holes hold that something special that keeps people coming back for more.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Bacon takes his time getting to the fateful voyage; there are myriad sidebars of varying interest on topics such as Great Lakes shipping and the rise of taconite, two lake wrecks that foreshadowed the Fitz, even the sailors’ favorite watering holes.
    Kevin Duchschere, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Taking place in 1962, nearly three decades before 2017's It, the show's tension centers around the historical burning of a speakeasy that catered to Black patrons by a group of white supremacists.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Backstage Lounge is a speakeasy best known for its craft cocktails and kitschy pop-ups like its Christmas in July event.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His adrenalized exploits, primarily at blackjack, are much discussed across the modern-day saloon culture, often dubbed the manosphere.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In one case, the magistrate sent a white woman to the workhouse for 60 days for having been arrested at a Hill saloon in the company of Black men.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This low-rise district is chock-full of dive bars, food trucks, yoga studios, tattoo parlors and clubs.
    Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The company claimed that the trial proved the Tiqker’s ability to operate reliably during multiple dives, proving its ability to work in real-world defense environments.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The tavern moved into its current spot in July 2021, after closing its location in Atherton Mill that February to make way for BOCADO Bar + Diner.
    Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Moran shared his business plans for the gaming tavern, and their ideas merged to form Mana Tap.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On a recent weeklong daddy-and-me trip to Ireland, the duo donned sports coats and tweed hats to board planes, hunted for green apples in hotel gyms, and fueled up on Irish pub food for energy to chase leprechauns.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Prince William and Princess Kate reportedly served drinks and food at the private pub, a members-only club for residents and employees of the Crown Estate, as a way to thank the builders and staff who got them into their new house ahead of schedule.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • These movies—including the seven-hour-long Sátántangó, a centerpiece of which is a shambling dance in a barroom—often swap the meandering sentence for a single camera shot that lasts 10 minutes or more.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Miller also features a few of Scorsese’s childhood friends who, in addition to the standard one-on-one interviews, gather around a barroom table to reminisce with Scorsese and, later on, De Niro.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Clip joint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clip%20joint. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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