Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An inn, restaurant, or nightclub located on a road outside a town or city.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling
Examples
“Mr. WEINZWEIG: Right now I'm actually very high on what we call the roadhouse bread.”
“Refurbishing former tonic water factory digs with their own four hands, the husband & wife team behind Mable's stocked their airy, industrial barn-steezed "roadhouse" with long communal tables set with chairs they either built themselves or sourced from flea markets, a giant buck head shot by the owner's cousin, and a central bar lit by hanging rusted buckets, setting the mood for anyone looking to get nailed.”
“While defending my country during the Korean Police Action, I was in the Air Force teaching Electronics at Scott Air Force Base in Belleville Ill. I often found myself with friends drinking beers in a "roadhouse" about five miles from my base.”
“There's been a halfhearted attempt to give the dining area a theatrical "roadhouse" motif, but that silly idea doesn't work in the center of a neatly manicured shopping district in a suburb.”
“As he put it, "If the New York City Opera [managers] could have [their] way, they would get rid of all weekly artists, and turn the opera into what is called a roadhouse-a place where artists come in, per performance, at the management's decision.”
City Opera, New York's No. 2 Troupe,Is Belting for Diva-Size Wages
“R E from Toronto, Canada writes: 'Zarko Budisavljevic from Canada writes: Probably best for Dalton (funny, he just doesn't look like he did in' roadhouse ') to get some manly assistance for this issue ....... how about hiring Mike Harris as a special consultant?”
“It was a rakehelly dive, a kind of roadhouse where the ‘mobility’ — that’s the joke name of the period for the tarts and townees who had transport — used to ride out of the city for a feed, what we’d call a barbecue, and a punch-up.”
Cargo of Eagles
“SFHD), of Brentwood, Tenn., operates Santa Fe Cattle Co., one of the nation's fastest growing casual dining "roadhouse" steak restaurant chains.”
“His “big buck with roadhouse onions” is after the jump …”
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