= sot-hole n.

a low ale-house.

a drinking den.

= sot-hole n.

A cellar open during the night as a (usually disreputable) tavern or meeting-place.

a resort of drinkers.

= lushing-ken n. at lushing, n. compounds.

= lushing-ken n. at lushing, n. compounds.

a small tavern or alehouse, esp. one regarded as disreputable; = sense 8; cf. jerry-shop at jerry, n.1 3.

Chiefly British. A small tavern or alehouse, esp. one regarded as disreputable. Cf. Tom and Jerry shop n. at sense 2. Obsolete.

‘A low drinking or gaming-place. Western U.S.’ (Cent. Dict.). Also, see quots.

Short for jerry-shop (a contraction, it is said, of Tom and Jerry, n., from the cant name of a mixture of liquors): A low beer-house.

A low-class tavern. Obsolete. rare.

slang (chiefly U.S.). A saloon, ‘low dive’, or brothel. Also crib-house, crib-joint.

An unauthorized office used originally for smaller gambling transactions in grain, and subsequently extended to offices for other descriptions of…

A low-class drinking saloon, often incorporating a lodging-house or brothel.

a drinking bar, low public house.

A low drinking establishment, a tavern.

a low-class drinking-saloon.

slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). A public house or hotel noted for violence or rowdiness.

a bar selling inferior liquor.

Inferior liquor; a public house that sells this. Also attributive.

(a) a tobacconist's shop, †formerly one in which accommodation for smoking was provided; also, a place where people gather to smoke and talk; (b) a…

(a) British a bar located in a basement or cellar (now rare); (b) chiefly U.S. a shabby, cheap, or disreputable bar; cf. sense 3.