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nitery U.S. slang.|ˈnaɪtərɪ|
Also niterie.
[f. nite n.2 + -ery.]
A night club.
1934M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang x. 147 Nitery, a night club. 1935Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1 We'll never catch a wire in a decent nitery. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 239/1 The most recent market nose dive played hob with what Abel Green calls ‘the niteries’. 1946Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 19 Oct. 20/3 His reportage is accurate in capturing the contemporary nitery scene. 1955Priestley & Hawkes Journey down Rainbow 129 All darkened niteries and dimmed hot spots. 1958[see dream n.2 4 h]. 1962New Statesman 19 Jan. 95/3 This negro comedian, who refuses to be winkled out of the grimy little niterie in which he made his reputation. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. (Show Guide) 14/3 Our story begins in a narrow strip of niteries on 52nd Street. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 1 Dec. 62/3 The Body Shop..is a nitery of the topless/bottomless variety, and reminds one that this is..LA's own porno-strip. 1972Guardian 13 Dec. 9/1 El Cubano (the New Niterie with the Olde Worlde Flavor). |