pub

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Just as the pub is the preserve of the British male, so the British female has colonised Starbucks, Nero, Costa et al. Some sociologists have speculated that these lounge-style coffee bars offer "a safe place for women".

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  1. noun A place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold and drunk.

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  • Those fellows who spend all their time soaking at the pub are apt to let their imaginations run away with them. —  Maigret and the Death of a Harbormaster—Simenon, Georges-15
  • No doubt the pub was a pit stop for coachloads of old-age pensioners on day trips to the coast. —  Disordered Minds
  • He works very hard to keep drugs out of that pub, which is why most of his customers are elderly and he doesn't make any money. —  Disordered Minds
  • "The first chapter is about a nine-year-old girl called Matilda Coleyshaw who was sent out at 11pm to look for her sister who hadn't returned home from work at the local pub, which is now The Junction," says Ian, aged 46, who works as a nightclub bouncer in Walsall and at the town's Leather Museum. —  Express & Star
  • For Melmerby resident Jason Brownlee, of Townhead Court, the pub was the best way of keeping in touch with his neighbours. —  News round-up
 

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