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sports bar

American  

noun

  1. a bar featuring televised sporting events.


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I watched the match in a sports bar in Philadelphia and the goals were flying in.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

My best meal was a wedge salad at a sports bar at MGM Grand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

“Complacency is a killer,” he told a crowd of about 50 last week at On the Kirb, an organic sports bar in the upmarket Houston neighborhood of Upper Kirby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

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

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