dramshop

[ dram-shop ]

noun

1. bar; barroom; saloon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dramshop¹

First recorded in 1715–25; dram + shop

Example Sentences

The tavern of sixty years ago, besides answering the purposes of the modern hotel, was the dramshop of the frontier.

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Another time, but that was when he was barely seventeen years of age, he fought in the dramshop with soldiers on furlough.

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In the dramshop, too, Repa was first in everything: he loved sivuha; and he was quick at fighting when he had drunk anything.

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“To-day each man is struggling to get at the pharaoh, as he might at the keeper of a dramshop,” muttered the adjutant.

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From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs.

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