dram-shopn.
Chiefly U.S.
A shop or bar where spirituous liquor is sold in drams or small quantities.
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houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
1725 New-England Courant 8–15 Feb. 1/2 Certainly the Devil had brought himself as well as his Hogs to a fine Market, when he was thus expos'd to Sale in a Dram-Shop.
1761 J. Adams Diary 21 Mar. (1961) I. 206 Taverns and Dram shops are therefore placed in every Corner of the Town.
1799 Aurora (Philad.) 27 Mar. Does he or Brother Eyerley mean to keep a dram-shop?
1839 Lincoln, Boston, etc. Gaz. 12 Feb. 3/3 A detached part of these premises is a dram-shop.
1849 F. Parkman Calif. & Oregon Trail 445 We passed..Boone's grocery and old Vogle's dram-shop.
1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks i. 2 A row of stores and dram-shops and butchers' establishments.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse iii. 62 The Indians..were quite capable of boycotting his dramshop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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