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shebeen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shebeen \She*been"\, n. [Of Irish origin; cf. Ir. seapa a shop.] A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cabin where unlicensed liquor is sold and drunk," 1781, chiefly in Ireland and Scotland, from Irish seibin "small mug," also "bad ale," diminutive of seibe "mug, bottle, liquid measure." The word immigrated and persisted in South African and West Indian English.
Wiktionary
n. An unlicensed drinking establishment, especially in Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa.
WordNet
n. unlicensed drinking establishment
Wikipedia
A shebeen was originally an illicit bar or club where excisable alcoholic beverages were sold without a licence. The term has spread far from its origins in Ireland, to Scotland, Canada, the United States, England, Zimbabwe, the English-speaking Caribbean, Namibia, and South Africa. In modern South Africa, many "shebeens" are now fully legal. The word derives from the Irish síbín, meaning 'illicit whiskey'.
Usage examples of "shebeen".
They will say that man is running a shebeen while he pretends to be a respectable person.
I managed to get his number from the shebeen queen who is living in Mr J.
The four of them had started at one end of the Buck Rogers Boulevard and methodically worked their way into the tubes, refusing to give any bar, speakeasy, or shebeen the go-by.
Peggys Planet my friend Audee Walthers was looking for a particular shebeen for a particular man.
He was no longer in the richer, more Western parts of the city, and when he finally found them it was in a shebeen at the edge of town, having an argument.
He was with a group of other Arabs at the back of the shebeen, but as Walthers started toward them the barwoman put out a hand.
Blind to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time, fornicating with two shawls and a bully on guard, drinking porter out of teacups.
The dismal shebeen of his own youth had been made over several times by the Howards.
He was the skipper of a canal boat and was the same Carney that had lost his shebeen the night of the Big Wind.
Billy Mulholland operated a shebeen that purveyed alcoholic cheer as well as espresso drinks and simple pub food.
She owned a famous shebeen at the foot of Signal Hill above Cape Town docks.
Colonel MacPherson and another officer of the Seventy-Third as they passed by, and much more so by the sight of Martin at their meeting-place, which could have been taken for a crossroads shebeen in the Bog of Allen but for the absence of rain or mud and the presence of three sorts of wild parrot on its sagging thatched roof and a large selection of tame ones in cages or on stands within doors.
Although people could easily go to legitimate bars, there were those who needed to drink on credit, and shebeens exploited such people.
And there were other things too: shebeens were associated with gambling and again in this respect they preyed on human weakness.
African men whom we used to see sloped up against the shebeens in the Tribal Trust Lands have disappeared as the war has intensified.