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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Wiktionary

  1. n. An illegal saloon or tavern operated during the Prohibition period in the 1920s.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (during prohibition) an illegal barroom

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  • bilby "Once the Xanadu of the Baathist ruling class, the 10-square-kilometer Green Zone, as described by journalist Scott Johnson, is now a surreal theme park of the American way of life:
    'Women in shorts and T-shirts jog down broad avenues and the Pizza Inn does a brisk business from the parking lot of the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy. Near the Green Zone Bazaar, Iraqi kids hawk pornographic DVDs to soldiers. Sheik Fuad Rashid, the U.S.-appointed imam of the local mosque, dresses like a nun, dyes his hair platinum blond and claims that Mary Mother of Jesus appeared to him in a vision (hence the getup). On any given night, residents can listen to karaoke, play badminton or frequent one of several rowdy bars, including an invitation-only speakeasy run by the CIA.'"
    - 'Return To Sender', Mike Davis, 14 April 2006. Feb 28, 2008

  • oroboros Probably first ran across this word in my potboiler days. Oct 21, 2007

‘speakeasy’ has been looked up 1698 times, loved by 3 people, added to 31 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.