cocktail lounge

noun

1. a public room, as in a hotel or airline terminal, where cocktails and other drinks are served.

2. a bar.

cocktail lounge

noun

1. a room in a hotel, restaurant, etc, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served

Word History and Origins

Origin of cocktail lounge¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a well-oiled machine for queer culture in the city.

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At this hotel cocktail lounge, they add it to their namesake drink, Pandan.

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The entrance to this moody cocktail lounge is located through a bookcase in a nondescript storefront in downtown.

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“If you come here, then you will help shape the programming. We are thinking about it like a working-class cocktail lounge.”

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“It was,” he recalls, “a different kind of weekend, instead of getting drunk in a cocktail lounge.”

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