oxygen bar

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noun

an establishment where customers go to inhale oxygen-rich air through a disposable hose inserted into their nostrils, for the purpose of deriving supposed therapeutic effects.

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Origin of oxygen bar

First recorded in 1985–90

Words nearby oxygen bar

oxygen, oxygen acid, oxygenase, oxygenate, oxygenator, oxygen bar, oxygen cycle, oxygen debt, oxygen effect, oxygenize, oxygen lance

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How to use oxygen bar in a sentence

When you leave the gondola plaza at the base of the mountain and clomp through town in your ski boots, you’ll pass Gucci and Prada, oxygen bars and underground social clubs.
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I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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You might work on the same groove for five hours nonstop, some three-bar thing over and over.
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The bar also claims that it hosted the first-ever poetry slam 28 years ago.
The Bars That Made America Great|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
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His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.
The Bars That Made America Great|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Ogden Hoffman, a distinguished member of the New York bar, died, aged 62.
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In the lungs hemoglobin forms a loose combination with oxygen, which it readily gives up when it reaches the tissues.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
They are cells which have been highly differentiated for the purpose of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.
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British Dictionary definitions for oxygen bar

oxygen bar

noun

an establishment where customers pay to inhale pure oxygen in order to combat the effects of air pollution

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