roadhouse
Americannoun
plural
roadhousesnoun
Etymology
Origin of roadhouse
Example Sentences
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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
His 1930 coffee pot-shaped Tacoma roadhouse survives today as Bob’s Java Jive.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 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
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