1800 J. Plumptre Jrnl. 22 July in I. Ousby James Plumtre's Brit. (1992) 201 Mr. T. slept at the pub.

1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 78 Pub, or Public, a public house.

1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 155 The wealthy proprietress of a busy ‘pub’.

1884 Good Words June 400/1 He had done twelve months for crippling for life the ‘chucker-out’ of one of these pubs.

1893 K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) ii. v. 188 It's Molloy's fault... He got tanked at the pub last night.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 339/2 Matters which in more serious countries are debated by learned societies, are in Ireland solved in pubs.

1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice vi. 170 In 1928 it was about three houses and a pub.

1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xiv. 129 We could nip in the pub for a drink.

2006 Hi Life No. 5. 24/1 I could have been in any number of internet cafés, hotels, coffee bars and even pubs and still had access to the internet.

1925 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 6 Feb. 4/4 Pub doors swung with a regularity that kept a shaft of yellow light stabbing across the..pavement.

1991 M. Curtin Plastic Tomato Cutter xxix. 242 There was a notice on the pub door that read Private Function.

1951 B. S. Rowntree & G. R. Lavers Eng. Life & Leisure iii. 184 We doubt whether the average ‘pub-goer’ in Carlisle has a proper chance of making his voice heard.

2005 Publican 27 June 14/2 A survey..found that only three per cent of pub-goers were concerned about the size of head on their pint.

1943 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 48 451/2 War's effects on the ordinary peacetime habits such as pub-going, sport, dancing, and so on.

2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) vi. 38 Pub-going didn't seem appropriate to her single status.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 571 He commented adversely on the desertion of Stephen by all his pubhunting confrères but one.

1913 W. K. Harris Outback in Austral. 110 The pub-keeper drove the coach onto the next ‘change’.

1980 D. Francis Reflex vi. 67 The pub-keeper from the Sussex village where he lived.

2001 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 21 Jan. d6 Asking advice of colleagues, pubkeepers, strangers in a shopping queue,..is a favorite pastime of mine.

1909 Daily Chron. 17 July 4/7 Mr. Lewis Harcourt's reference to ‘the ground and the pub-landlord seeking to hold the common fort’.

1994 Guardian 21 Jan. i. 4/5 Her looks could make the wives of pub landlords jealous as she toured licensed premises.

1924 Helena (Montana) Independent 7 Dec. 4 Bartenders and ‘pub’ managers are supposed to listen to all the troubles of their patrons.

1999 S. Yeandle in R. Crompton Restructuring Gender Relations & Employm. v. 104 Some employers require their hotel and pub managers to be married men, with the implication that their wives' labour will be available.

1963 R. Croft-Cooke Bosie x. 212 He was invited to a pub meal by a number of unsuccessful writers who called themselves the New Bohemians.

2004 Slimming World Mar.–Apr. 22/1 With..the option of an Indian, Chinese, Italian or pub meal out, you can see just how flexible and easy Food Optimising is.

1963 Times 28 Nov. 1/3 (advt.) Old decorated pub mirrors required urgently.

2003 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 9 Feb. 38 A coal fire burns constantly during the winter months and on the wall above it hangs a beautiful original pub mirror.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 132 In a pub parlour, in literary London, on certain evenings.

2003 Independent (Nexis) 29 May 17 The 19th-century crowd reasserts some of its old wilfulness, whether in the proliferation of pub parlours for sing-songs, in the street market, or the banter of the bus and tram.

1973 K. Giles File on Death v. 118 I own the local brewery... Pub-running has problems.

2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 11 Feb. 43 Current beer trade is difficult and pub-running and brewing need different ideas constantly pushed at them.

1945 Ess. & Stud. 31 51 This image of the blear-eyed tippler of an English pub-sign.

2002 T. Collins & W. Vamplew Mud, Sweat, & Beers i. 6 Pub signs often reflect the way of life, both past and present. Thus they may offer clues to the sporting connections of the public house in a particular locality.

1957 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 26 July 4/7 In Northern Ireland, pub singers sounded out with ‘The Protestant Boys’.

1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 151/1 It was the middle-aged man with the pub-singer hair who first aroused my suspicion.

1973 ZigZag (Electronic text) Sept. I'm willing to bet that all those pub bands put together couldn't get within a thousand miles of the quality that Rivers' lot produced.

2003 Dirty Linen June 43/1 For anyone who's been listening to too many thrashy pub bands lately, this disc is a graceful alternative.

1915 T. Burke Nights in Town 273 We did a ‘pub-crawl’ in Commercial Road and East India Dock Road.

1964 C. Beaton Diary 9 Feb. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xxvi. 370 Simon Fleet had arranged a pub-crawl of the East End.

1992 London (Ont.) Visitor 1993–4 9/1 A visit to London wouldn't be complete without a stop at the famous Ceeps, a must-do on any pub crawl.

1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 910/1 Mr. Lyons does not ‘pub-crawl’ as a writer in search of copy.

1995 Sports Illustr. 12 June 66/3 A lager-guzzling goofball who liked to pub-crawl with his mate.

1910 Times 26 Jan. 7/3 The Tariff Reform orator, the pub crawler, was sent to loaf about the villages and the taverns to hold forth on the ruined prosperity of Great Britain.

1976 J. R. L. Anderson Redundancy Pay ix. 145 You're turning me into quite a pub-crawler.

1999 M. R. Solomon in Consumer Value iii. 75 The decoding of consumption may encompass perceptions of tangible possessions.., leisure activities.., or services (e.g., patrons of health food restaurants versus pub crawlers).

1913 Times 4 Mar. 3/4 If anyone does pub-crawling it is Mr. White.

1943 J. Hone W.B. Yeats, 1865–1939 vii. 182 The contacts with grey-haired pubcrawling dreamers..provided him with a rich store of anecdotes for his old age.

1994 C. Grant X-Files: Goblins iv. 35 While he was here, he always dropped in, looking for a free meal, or a long night of pub-crawling.

2002 Smithsonian Aug. 42/1 The story of how the soft-spoken scientist found himself cast as a pub-crawling supernumerary begins—where else?—in a bar.

1970 Times 1 Aug. 1/7 (advt.) Good English pub food, including special dinner at 30s.

1997 Publican 27 Jan. 1/4 The aim of the week is to get customers reading, talking about and eating pub food.

2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 June ii. 8/1 More than a decade ago, David Eyre introduced pub food with aspirations at the Eagle, spawning a welcome generation of ‘gastropub’ imitators.

1959 J. Cary Captive & Free xviii. 85 His father had been a steady worker, but completely devoid of ambition; a man whose only interests were football, darts, his pub-friends.

1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 4. 98 We were pub-friends, y'know, we just went out drinking.

1964 Frederick (Maryland) Post 14 Nov. 5/4 (advt.) Eyler's Pub-Grub..formerly Steele's Inn now open to serve lunch & beer.

1977 Times 11 June 11/6 (headline) Better pub grub.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 155 I wouldn't fancy the pub grub here, and I'll eat anything.

1943 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 9 Sept. 4/3 Even pub life [in London] isn't what it used to be. Beverages are highly taxed.

1991 J. Cartwright To 14 I like that part of pub life, the people.

1954 N. Cunard Grand Man ii. iii. 173 You deliberated where we should meet for the traditional Shepherds Pie or the so-called sausages of war-time pub-lunches.

1999 National Trust Mag. Spring 61/2 (advt.) Enjoy..walks in unspoilt National Trust countryside, traditional Dorset Cream teas and cosy pub lunches.

1971 ‘F. Clifford’ Blind Side ii. iv. 113 He pub-lunched in Richmond.

2002 Times (Nexis) 17 Aug. 4 Walk back along the river..before pub lunching at the Flounder's Arms.

1971 Times 2 June 6/1 The sound of pub-lunchers arising merrily from below.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 June 1 The pub lunchers in the Castle Arms hardly glanced up from their chicken roast at the one o'clock news bulletin.

1980 Times 29 May 31/2 Repeat of a delightful play about a university type recruited by a pub quiz team.

2004 A. McKinty Hidden River ii. 15 The pub quiz had six rounds of team questions and then a rapid-fire round of five minutes dictated by a buzzer.

1974 Music Scene Jan. 13/1 Colin talks a bit about pub-rock. ‘They're so laid back. It's a sort of philosophy.’

1989 Q Mar. 101/4 Pub rock enjoyed its brief heyday just prior to punk.

2005 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 28 Although their music is standard pub rock, Quarantine have a fiercely loyal following and went down a storm.

1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 38 Jack Drew talked too straight in the paper, and in spite of his proprietors—about pub spieling and such things.

1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 63 The pub-stiff that was on the door told us to go upstairs.

1971 Times 9 Feb. 10/1 The King's Head..is the latest addition to the pub-theatre circuit.

1976 Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 11/5 As the pint is pulled downstairs, an audience is held upstairs by one of the best examples of Pub Theatre to be found in London.

1996 T. Hunt Villon's Last Will i. 3 It is best conceived as a dramatic monologue of the sort which would suit modern pub theatres.

1941 Nevada State Jrnl. 3 Feb. 4/4 Today, ‘Bevin’ is on more English tongues than ale is, come ‘pub’ time.

1968 L. Meynell Death of Philanderer x. 167 The clock behind the bar would be showing ‘pub time’, that is..it would be at least five minutes fast.

2004 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. 7 We found the pub and pulled a couple of stools up to the bar. It was quiet, but then we were there on British pub time—7.30pm.

1858 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 16 Jan. Rev. Geo. M. Spratt, Agt. Penn. Bap. Pub. Soc.

1904 E. C. Richardson & A. E. Morse Writings on Amer. Hist., 1902 p. xvi Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications. Boston. Pub Col Soc of Mass.

1973 Publishers Weekly 13 Aug. 30/2 Mark Twain..decided to publish ‘Huckleberry Finn’ by subscription in advance of publication. After pub date, Twain received an unexpected publicity break.

1987 Boxing News 21 Aug. 3/3 Your Boxing News has all of the USA boxing pubs..beat by a mile.

2002 Entertainm. Weekly 18 Jan. 75/1 This is a haunting shimmer of a novel, whose pub date—eerily—was Sept. 11.

1679 T. Tenison Acct. all Lord Bacon's Wks. 32 (note) in Baconiana Pub. by Gruter among the Scripta.

1877 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) I. 70 Williams's copper plate Map of US, Canada, Central Am, West Indies pub by Brenner & Atwood 402 Locust st Phil.

1959 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 Nov. tm64/1 Representation of gladiator on a shield..Pub. 8–25–59.

1993 B. L. Peterson Cent. of Musicals in Black & White 5 Some individual vocal-piano scores pub. by Gotham-Attucks Music Co., New York.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat ii We decided that we would..hotel it, and inn it, and pub. it..when it was wet.

1950 John o' London's Weekly 24 Nov. 614/1 Pubbing through Edinburgh's Old Town and the Leith waterfront.

1972 S. Chance Septimus & Minster Ghost vii. 62 ‘Can't have you pubbing in your canonicals,’ she said, going to the door and looking out into the alley.

1998 B. Goodwin Frommer's USA (ed. 5) iv. xi. 404 Although Duval was tamed long ago,..pubbing through the many open-air bars remains one of the world's best crawls.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 114 Taz was a useless fucker, out every night, pubbing, clubbing, on the rob, whatever.

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xiv. 130 The profits to be made from fools by pubbing could add to it.

1932 Nevada State Jrnl. 5 June 4/3 ‘The Diary of an Ex-President’..was just pubbed by Milton-Balch, Inc.

1977 in Amer. Speech (1982) 57 28 Boowatt is pubbed by Garth Danielson.

1978 R. L. Purdy & M. Millgate Coll. Lett. T. Hardy I. 102 Tauchnitz paid £60 to pub. A Laodicean later in 1882.

2002 A. Davies Frog King 68 Let's say you just pubbed a new Crichton, or Grisham, or whatever, and it's moving thousands of units a day.