dramshop

American  

[dram-shop] / ˈdræmˌʃɒp /

noun

1. bar; barroom; saloon.

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Etymology

Origin of dramshop

First recorded in 1715–25; dram + shop

Example Sentences

Bar owners began to be held responsible for the negative consequences of serving too much alcohol, even requiring them to provide for the widows of patrons who died from alcohol purchased at their establishments—policies that still exist today through dramshop liability.

From Newsweek

“Thou dost not know, then, that warriors, since the manœuvres, especially Greek warriors, drink thy health in every dramshop.”

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Britons still debated the truth about the Duke of Hamilton and his friends�in Glasgow so violently that dramshop dialecticians often came to blows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let them say to the representatives of the nation’s dignity on the floors of Congress,—Conduct yourselves like men of principle; pollute not these chambers by invectives that would disgrace a dramshop nor by broils that belong to scenes of midnight riot; attend to the business for which we sent you to the national halls, and make us not ashamed of ourselves that we have chosen men, whom we cannot respect, to be our legislators.

From Project Gutenberg