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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barroom

Barroom \Bar"room`\, n.

  1. A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

  2. a commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

    Syn: bar-room, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
barroom

1797, from bar (n.2) + room (n.).

Wiktionary
barroom

alt. A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. n. A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

WordNet
barroom

n. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom]

Usage examples of "barroom".

The energy beams plowed through the upper floor and plunged on into the main barroom below, where they rebounded from a psionic screen erected at the very last moment by the espers within.

The espers in the barroom were representatives of the esper union, and some of the strongest minds in Mistport, and together they held off the disrupter cannon.

Thin bolts of energy stabbed through the barroom ceiling, transfixing people here and there like insects on pins.

If she and everyone else in the barroom were to survive, she was going to have to be more than just Jenny Psycho.

The barroom was now a sea of flames, and thick black smoke boiled out of the hole.

In the barroom he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and the place presented the usual scenery of such reunions.

He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.

It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery.

He said he had been cheated and was going back to the barroom and get his money.

Next to the barroom they had one full of old rotting chairs and beer cases where about ten mangy cats lived.

Martin, and during the course of the evening I decided to mention the prospective collections in case he had ever done a unicorn story or a barroom story.

Samuel sat at the little round table in the barroom and Samuel drew figures on the scrubbed wood with the moisture of his beer glass.

And while I tell you, I am myself sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks.

I looked at TJ Sterling sitting across from me with his barroom tan and canary-feather grin, but instead of feeling angry and repulsed, I was afraid.

With considerable hilarity on the part of the girls, they passed noisily through the hall, past the big open doorway leading into the enormous barroom, and Awl- THE POODLE DOG 81 on up the heavily carpeted stairs to room number 10, at the head.