speakon.
/ˈspiːkəʊ/ U.S. slang.
= speakeasy n.
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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).
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