noun
tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
• Syn: ↑public house, ↑pub, ↑saloon, ↑pothouse, ↑taphouse
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hyponyms: ↑alehouse, ↑free house
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/jin/, Slang.
a bar or saloon, esp. a cheap or disreputable one.
[1860-65, Amer.]
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gin mill,
U.S. Slang. a saloon or tavern.
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n. informal a run-down or seedy nightclub or bar
Useful english dictionary. 2012.