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 In the short term, the nightspots may see less traffic. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025 And then following in his dad’s footsteps, Chris Barish became a successful restaurateur having launched nightspot Light in midtown Manhattan and at the Belaggio in Las Vegas and helped develop Moomba, Gordon Ramsay Pub and Grill and Gordon Ramsay Steak. Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 Listen to this article A man was stabbed to death at a Bronx bar called Last Stop early Sunday, marking the second slaying at the nightspot in just over two years. John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025 Juan Gutierrez, 25, who lives close to the nightspot, came home early Sunday morning to find a police scene. John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nightspot
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Noun
  • In 2017, after two American students said they were raped by police officers on their way home from a Florence nightclub, then-Mayor Dario Nardella chose to respond by chastising the student population.
    John Last, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • Federal agents captured 18 immigrants facing deportation during their April 27 raid on an unlicensed Colorado Springs nightclub, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Max Levy, Denver Post, 9 May 2025
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  • Later in the piece, as the audience is ushered into a decadent cabaret space carved out of the Agger Fish Building, another amazing and largely untold tale is teased, revealed, and spun.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 2 May 2025
  • Drysdale’s ruling followed the discovery by the Manhattan district attorney’s office that the 1916 drawing, Russian War Prisoner, had been stolen from Austrian Jewish cabaret entertainer Fritz Grünbaum by Nazis.
    News Desk, Artforum, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By hosting or joining a cake club, every night can feel extra special.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2025
  • With that in mind, potential free agents like Sané or Tah would have usually announced their new club as soon as possible.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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  • Hussain Saleh, 23, a barista in the cafe, was less impressed.
    Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • So, starting June 2, the popular cafe will launch a dinner menu and close later.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025

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“Nightspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightspot. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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