pub crawl
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6.8
- noun
- /pʌb krɔl/
- Informal
:
ruta de bares
- She suggested we join the weekly pub crawl, stopping at a different pub every Friday.
Examples
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What say we go off on a pub crawl?
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The guys decided that we were going to have, every year to do a pub crawl, because it's our anniversary.
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A pub crawl with good friends, sampling a few of them in convivial surroundings, is one of the finest ways to spend an evening.
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Most of the time with my regular circle, we're meeting up someplace central to dine, go dancing, pub crawl, or whatever, and then everyone goes their separate ways.
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Last year, The Huffington Post did a piece on the phenomenon and detailed a party of one dad-to-be whose send-off into fatherhood included a pub crawl around the city.
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We organized a pub crawl to celebrate James's birthday, visiting three different bars in one night.
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After the concert, a group of us decided to go on a pub crawl to explore the local nightlife.
Synonyms
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3.7
Visiting several bars in one night to drink and socialize
How Many Pubs
- Informal
4
6.8
- Informal
1
6.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the transparent word 'pub' with 'crawl' used metaphorically to mean moving from place to place; a B1 learner who knows both words can likely infer the idea of visiting several pubs in succession. However, the social/drinking-connotation and the conventionalized sequence aspect are not fully predictable from the parts alone, so the expression is only partially compositional.
Etymology
The phrase pub crawl probably comes from the picture of people going from one pub to the next and walking like they 'crawl' because they have been drinking. That's why it means 'visiting several pubs or bars in a row'.