n.
Urban spa where customers inhale pure oxygen under the premise that doing so will regenerate cells, clean the system of toxins, increase energy and stamina, and reduce stress.
Example Citation:
Two entrepreneurs have opened Canada's first oxygen bar, where $16 buys you a 20-minute whiff of pure oxygen. The O 2 Spa Bar, whose motto is "You are what you breathe," lets you belly up to the bar, stick a plastic tube up your nose, and inhale.
—"A gas bar for the 90s," The Globe and Mail, March 1, 1996
Earliest Citation:
Moreover, this ready-to-use oxygen boom has prompted another of Japan's leading department stores, Takashimaya Co., to start a new business: [an] "oxygen bar." At the unique bar, located in the center of the fifth floor of its Nihombashi main store, one can breathe three minutes of condensed oxygen for a mere Y100.
—Konosuke Kuwabara, "Portable oxygen sales breathe new life into health boom," The Japan Economic Journal, November 14, 1987
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New words. 2013.