watering hole

noun

Informal.

1. a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.

watering hole

noun

1. a pool where animals drink; water hole

2. facetious,  a pub

Example Sentences

The tragedy has hit hard in the close-knit town, where cell service is spotty and a gas station - adorned with a Confederate flag centrepiece - is the local watering hole.

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Bucksnort is a close-knit town where the cell service is spotty and a gas station - adorned with a Confederate flag centrepiece - is the local watering hole, residents say.

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Already he had come up with new watering holes I never knew existed.

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Featuring souvenir mai tai glasses and faded photos of celebrities on its walls, the old-fashioned watering hole was built over the Pacific Ocean in 1952.

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Two Pints was first performed in 2017 in, appropriately, a pub in Dublin, before embarking on a tour of watering holes across Ireland.

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Related Words

• bar 
• bistro 
• cabaret 
• disco 
• discotheque 
• restaurant 
• saloon 
• speakeasy 
• tavern