单词 | speako |
释义 | speakon. U.S. slang. = speakeasy n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 1931 Amer. Mercury Dec. 415/2 There's only one thing in the world that puts a speako over, and that's good will. 1932 Amer. Mercury Jan. 11 A brewery which supplied every other speako between Fourteenth and Canal streets. 1941 J. M. Cain Mildred Pierce (1943) i. 29 Making the grand tour of all the speako's he knows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1931 |
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