as in nightclub
a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts)
one of the city's few nightspots featuring a dance floor and a live band
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Recent Examples of nightspot
The island-chain’s first mass shooting, the incident unfolded at 2:57 a.m. Sunday when officers with the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands responded to reports of gunfire at a popular nightspot in Providenciales called the Island Hookah and Cigar.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
The Forum Club became one of the city’s hottest nightspots.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Longtime production designer Adam Stockhausen outdoes himself here, creating vivid worlds that run the gamut from exotic, Casablanca-style nightspots to underground-tunnel meeting spaces to treacherous jungle landscapes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Local authorities were called to the popular nightspot around 1:50 a.m. to investigate reports of gunfire.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
The Forum Club became one of the city’s hottest nightspots.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Longtime production designer Adam Stockhausen outdoes himself here, creating vivid worlds that run the gamut from exotic, Casablanca-style nightspots to underground-tunnel meeting spaces to treacherous jungle landscapes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Local authorities were called to the popular nightspot around 1:50 a.m. to investigate reports of gunfire.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightspot
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His legacy is alive and well in the nightclubs of Recife, the capital city, where couples dance to forró’s distinctive ringing of triangles and humming zabumba drum until the early hours.—
Carolina Abbott Galvão,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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They are accused of stockpiling guns and ammunition, practicing shooting and scouting a strip of LGBT nightclubs in Ferndale as potential targets, according to a federal criminal complaint.—
Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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What better way to honor your mom at her cabaret act premiere than to raid her closet — right?—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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And, this past weekend, the paparazzi knew to find Perry and Trudeau at the Crazy Horse Paris cabaret.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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To her, the spirit of the birthday club was always about connection, not calculation.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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The club, founded in 2009, provides $80,000 benefits to every first responder in its service area in Johnson, Somervell and Parker counties, member Tom Cowan said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Nightspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightspot. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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