speakeasy

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  1. noun A place for the illegal sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, as during Prohibition in the United States.

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  • He was wearing what I liked to think of as his goodfella suit—a pinstriped number that looked like something he'd stolen off a bouncer at a speakeasy, and maybe he had. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • The owners of the house—now a bed-and-breakfast—were kind of charmed by the idea that their house might have a secret past as a speakeasy. —  Kat Richardson - Greywalker 1 - Greywalker (v2.0)
  • An aged Wyatt Earp, western legend turned Hollywood private eye, travels to 1920 New York to help Doc Holliday's speakeasy-proprietor son, one of the few purely fictional characters in the book. —  EQMM,August2007
  • Sometimes, Luciano well knew, a man made his own luck With Rudi serving as an extremely competent and enthusiastic bouncer for the speakeasy and brothel, Big Dom had harbored no complaints. —  EQMM, May2006
  • When I lived in LI, I had speakeasy, and it wasn't that simple. —  Techdirt
 

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