roadhouse
Americannoun
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roadhouses
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noun
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Origin of roadhouse
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The next track, “Excited Delirium,” a high-speed roadhouse rave-up about unlawful search and seizure, is defiant and angry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
But he found consistent money playing music with his band throughout the red dirt roadhouse circuit in Oklahoma and Texas.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
A far cry from the barns and roadhouses that dot this countryside, the century-old museum building would look more at home on Portland’s South Park Blocks, 100 miles west.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2017
The film “Anacostia Delta: Home of the World’s Great ‘Unknown’ Guitarists” promises to shed light on the lasting influence of guitarist Danny Gatton and the music of D.C. and Prince George’s County roadhouses and honky-tonks.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017
Long before social media and music venues became common homes for standups, Stanhope was building his audience on MySpace and in roadhouses.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2016
Instead, lurid stories were concocted in the back rooms of nearby roadhouses.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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