Crossword clues for barrelhouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
barrelhouse \barrelhouse\ n. A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Syn: honky-tonk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cheap saloon, often with an associated brothel," by 1875, American English, so called in reference to the barrels of beer or booze typically stacked along the wall. See barrel (n.) + house (n.).\n\nQ. What was this place you rented? -- A. It was a room adjoining a barrel-house.\n
Q. What is a barrel house? -- A. It is a room where barrels of whisky are tapped, a very inferior kind of whisky, and the whisky is sold by the glassful right out of the barrel. It is a primitive coffee house.
[Committee Report of the 43rd Congress, Select Committee on Conditions of the South, 1874-75]
Wiktionary
n. A rough and tumble drinking establishment.
WordNet
n. a cheap drinking and dancing establishment [syn: honky-tonk]
Wikipedia
Barrelhouse can refer to:
- A " juke joint", a bar or saloon. Originates from the storage of barrels of alcohol.
- An early form of jazz with wild, improvised piano, and an accented two-beat rhythm (see Boogie-woogie).
- A style of piano-playing associated with the above.
- Barrelhouse Records, a record label.
- The London Blues and Barrelhouse Club, a blues club in London founded by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davis.
- The Barrelhouse Club, a rhythm and blues nightclub in Los Angeles, co-owned by Johnny Otis.
Usage examples of "barrelhouse".
Jack Shannon, his wily roommate, had spent their nights at barrelhouse piano saloons on the South Side, listening to musicians with names like Pine Top Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Cow Cow Davenport pound the keys on their uprights.
The music was called barrelhouse piano because the small bars where it was played served liquor directly out of kegs.
I was invited to play this very same medley at the International Barrelhouse Buffs Con in Madrid only two years ago.
Then gather three men and meet me at the barrelhouse in fifteen minutes.
He might strangle her in fury or in possessive rage, but he would not send a thief to take her from his house, nor would he deal with scum from a barrelhouse for so paltry a reason.
The barrelhouse was such a den of corruption she could not see how she was ever to escape it.
His appearance in the back room of a sleazy barrelhouse, bringing hope.
There actually was a Joe Powell who had a barrelhouse orchestra, but he was now keeping out of sight and sound at the request of the State Department, by way of aiding the general plan.
January watched him stomp through the mud, pausing to finish his bottle with another long pull, then send it spinning away above the barrelhouse roof.
He got good at it fast, shooting back requested information to the road units, playing the computer keys like it was a barrelhouse piano, liaising with other Troops when it was necessary, as it was after a series of violent thunderstorms whipped through western PA one evening toward the end of June.
New Orleans, going to drive all night, sleep all day tomorrow, then barrelhouse all night long.
The river men and sailors who patronized the smoky saloons and barrelhouses of Gallatin Street were a brutish lot, but the whores were even tougher.
There were certain barrelhouses that he liked and a certain brothel he visited whenever he came to the city.