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uk/ˌfriː ˈhaʊs/us/ˌfriː ˈhaʊs/UKa type of bar in the UK that is not owned and controlled by a brewery (= a business that makes beer) so the range of beers and other drinks that it can sell is not limited
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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
- bar
- barkeeper
- barmaid
- barman
- bartender
- cut sb off
- gastropub
- hostelry
- innkeeper
- landlady
- licensee
- liquor store
- lock-in
- nineteenth
- public house
- publican
- roadhouse
- saloon
- saloon bar
- say when idiom
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