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单词 bottle club
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bottle club
bottle club n. chiefly U.S. a drinking club where patrons or members bring their own alcoholic drink and are charged for admission, service, etc. (often as a means of evading licensing laws).
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1935 Arizona Independent Republic 2 June ii. 1/7 The ‘bottle club’ [in London] always happens..to be situated right next door to a liquor and wine store whose proprietor..is..broadminded about staying up all hours of the morning.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xi. 93 Unlike..jurisdictions where the cheaters are unlicensed ‘bottle clubs’, these..all-night spots..hold permits to sell legally during regular business hours.
1988 J. D. Pistone & R. Woodley Donnie Brasco 214 So that King's Court didn't have to deal with the liquor authority, it was a private ‘bottle club’ that you could join for a membership fee of $25.
2001 Fodor's Healthy Escapes (rev. ed.) 205 Possibly the state's last members-only ‘bottle club’, a throwback to post-Prohibition-era blue laws.
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