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
  • This is the oldest bar in the city and was once the watering hole for the founding fathers, including George Washington.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On a brisk February evening in 2006, around a hundred people gathered in the venerable Koreatown watering hole HMS Bounty to pay their last respects to Los Angeles’ historic Ambassador Hotel.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 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
  • The Salty Dawg Saloon — Homer, Alaska Located in a cabin at the tip of the Kenai Peninsula in scenic Kachemak Bay, the Salty Dawg was built in 1897 and has served as a post office, railroad station, grocery store and coal mining office, according to the saloon’s website.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was once a vibrant community before it was abandoned in the 1960s.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ferrara’s arrival in New York City and subsequent entry into the movie business is presented as something like a case of recidivism, a dive from suburban gentility into the cauldron of steaming garbage that was Fun City–era Manhattan.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The deep dive into Chaplin’s working methods is compelling and illuminating, and the shooting script itself shows that the always politically and philosophically probing Chaplin hadn’t lost any of his fire or originality in his old age.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The key pubs—The Matchmaker Bar, The Ritz, and The Roadside Tavern—are steps from another, so rubbing shoulders with other singles is inevitable.
    Bernadette Keith, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The 60-story building at 270 Park Avenue is also home to 19 restaurants, as well as coffee shops, a company store, a gym and Morgan’s, an English pub, The Journal reported.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At every small-town tavern and barbershop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Your Office replaced My Office tavern, which operated for decades before closing in 2020.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 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 27 Oct. 2025.

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