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sports bar

American  

noun

  1. a bar featuring televised sporting events.


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And would it be the most popular airport sports bar in history?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The hurricane had wiped out the house and family-run sports bar.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

In short, they’re as suited to their surroundings as an order of wings at a sports bar: They fit, but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine enjoying them in dozens of other places.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Your mouth will be full of gauze or cotton balls and your eyes will be half-closed like last call at a sports bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

But all I can talk her into is taking the Pure Protein sports bar I always carry in my bag in case my sandwich lets me down.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich