What is "pub"

1859, slang shortening of public house (see public (adj.)), which originally meant "any building open to the public" (1570s), then "inn that provides food and is licensed to sell ale, wine, and spirits" (1660s), and finally "tavern" (1768). Pub crawl first attested 1910 in British slang.

Etymology 1 n. A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed and also provides food and sometimes entertainment, normally television viewing. vb. (context intransitive English) To go to one or more public houses. Etymology 2

n. A publication. Etymology 3

vb. (context informal transitive English) to publish

1. n. tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse]

2. [also: pubbing, pubbed]

A pub, or public house, is a house licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. In many places, especially in villages, a pub is the focal point of the community. Samuel Pepys described the pub as the heart of England.

Pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the tied house system in the 19th century.

Pubs are socially and culturally distinct from cafés, bars and beer halls. Most offer a range of beers, wines, spirits, and soft drinks and snacks. Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but there has been a move towards clear glass and brighter interiors.

The owner, tenant or manager (licensee) is known as the pub landlord or publican. Referred to as their "local" by regulars, pubs are typically chosen for their proximity to home or work, the availability of a particular beer, a darts team, a skittles team, or a pool or snooker table.

Until the 1970s most of the larger pubs also featured an off-sales counter or attached shop for the sales of beers, wines and spirits for home consumption. In the 1970s, supermarkets and high street chain stores and off-licences undercut pub prices; and all but a handful closed their off-sale counters.

Pub is a public house or bar (establishment).

Pub may refer to:

• Pub (Denzil album), a 1994 album by British band Denzil
• Pub (Đorđe Balašević album), a 1982 album by Serbian singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević album
• PUB (file type), Microsoft Publisher document file format
• PUB (Stockholm), department store in Stockholm

Pub can also be:

• Percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling, a genetic test
• Politehnica University of Bucharest, Politehnica University of Bucharest
• Princeton University Band, the marching band and pep band of Princeton University
• Principle of uniform boundedness, a fundamental result of functional analysis
• Public Utilities Board, Singapore's national water agency
• Pueblo Memorial Airport, in Colorado, USA
• .pub, Microsoft Publishing file extension
• Public directories on FTP and HTTP Servers are often named pub

PUB was one of the major department stores in Stockholm, Sweden, located in two buildings at Hötorget, Stockholm city center. PUB was opened in 1882 and rapidly expanded. The name PUB is for the initials of Paul Urbanus Bergström, the founder of the store, who owned a great deal of buildings and business in the area.

In the late 20th century, the upper 4 storeys of the department store were converted into a hotel: the Rica Hotel Kungsgatan, later the Scandic Hotel Kungsgatan. In 2015, plans were announced to close the last remaining portion of the store and convert the entire building to the Scandic Hotel Haymarket.

Pub Is the debut album by the British band Denzil.

Microsoft Publisher document file format used to create several different types of publications; some examples include newsletters, flyers, brochures, and postcards, as well as Web site and e-mail formats contain text and both raster and vector graphics.

Pub (trans. Jack) is the first solo album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević. The album was produced by Josip Boček, who also played guitar on the album.

The album featured the hits "Ratnik paorskog srca" which tells of a peasant who returns from World War I and who "wasn't made to be a soldier", "Za sve je kriv Toma Sojer" which tells of three boys which ran away from home influenced by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, "Boža zvani Pub" which tells of a legendary gambler nicknamed Pub (Jack), the ballad "Lepa protina kći". The song "Pesma o jednom petlu" went on to become one of Balašević's signature pieces. It tells a story of an old man's younger days in the farm-rich area of Vojvodina when he had a pet rooster. The rooster is widely assumed to be a metaphor for his male sexual organ for which female birds tend to go crazy. The lyrics go on to list different kinds of female birds which in turn depict stereotypical characteristics of women in Serbo-Croatian slang. The refrain line "Princip je isti, sve su ostalo nijanse" ("The principle is the same, everything else is nuances") is referring to the way of courting the opposite sex. The lyrics conclude in the man's later years as he misses the good times gone by and giving advice never to make your rooster suffer, to let him fly around so that female birds can see him, for afterwards it will be too late, because even roosters have a life span.

The album was polled in 1998 as the 66th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav rock and pop albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).