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Grogshop

Grogshop \Grog"shop`\, n. A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

Usage examples of "grogshop".

He thanked Gamecock and the woman for their help and went off with the Frenchman to the front of the grogshop.

The dockers form a disciplined front rank, and behind them is a disorderly and noisy crowd, like the one that had gathered outside the grogshop but more determined.

Those people rebuffed only shrugged cheerfully and slogged off through the downpour to other circuses or theatres or cafés, or just to buvette grogshops to get drunk, for all of Paris was celebrating this day.

Grogshops and houses of ill fame lined streets so narrow that daylight's cleansing beams, I was certain, never penetrated to the floors of their canyons to dry the slime and muck of the night's commerce in depravity.

A few streets full of horsetraders, swordsmiths, joy houses, and grogshops tended to their needs.