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Answer for the clue "Highway cafe ", 9 letters:
roadhouse

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Roadhouse is John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band 's third album, released in 1988. The album was John Cafferty's second attempt to pull his band away from the Eddie and the Cruisers franchise, but failed to do so. The album produced one single which failed ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inn by a roadside," 1857, later "place for refreshment and entertainment along a road" (1922), from road (n.) + house (n.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly US English) An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aborigines frequent the roadhouse and are gawked at by foreign travelers as if they were walking souvenirs. ▪ Basically my father who I believe you knew in the Sixties ... he organised lots of the roadhouse shows? ▪ He suggested ...

Usage examples of roadhouse.

Papa, known to others as Horace Guester, keeper of the Hatrack River Roadhouse.

Arthur to the roadhouse, where Old Peg Guester was full of scold at the mixup boy for running off and bothering folks all morning.

After two hours, with almost everything classified, Salley leaned back in her chair and, staring through the screens, saw a few cottonwoods, a car up on cinder blocks, and the empty gravel parking lot behind a shabby roadhouse some distance down the highway.

His partner, Van Meter, was calling from the Cucumber Lounge, a notorious Vineland County roadhouse, in high agitation.

Why the dickens they want to put in their time listening to all that blaa when they—" "It's certainly better for them than going to roadhouses and smoking and drinking!

Then when I was sixteen years old and I went for the first time to the Boundary Club on the Breaux Bridge highway, a rough, ramshackle roadhouse where they fought with knives and bottles in the shale parking lot, I saw her drawing draft beer behind the bar.

It mattered little if you were a drunk driver, an arsonist, or a fellow who'd broken a beer bottle over another fellow's head in a drunken roadhouse argument.

Just outside the Augusta city limits was a roadhouse that went by the charming name of The Big Lost Weekend Bar and Grille (Whopper Spareribs Our Specialty, The Nashville Kitty-Cats This Fri and Sad).

She got hysterical and started to rave about an angel with a sword who would walk through the parking lots of roadhouses and cut down the wicked.

Sometimes they would drive all the way to Windsor, and stop at roadhouses that featured cocktails and ferocious piano-playing and raffish dancing—roadhouses frequented by gangsters involved in the rum-running, who would come up from Chicago and Detroit to make their deals with the law-abiding distillers on the Canadian side.

It's also been recognized at a roadhouse place called the Scarlet Runner, halfway between Bexhill and London.

Looked like it would help a lot for them to get out in a hack and get a few shots of hooch under their belts, stop at a few roadhouses, take in a good variety show.