roadhouse
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈroʊdˌhaʊs/
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posada
- After a long drive, we stopped at a roadhouse for dinner and live music.
- roadhouse cafe
- roadhouse restaurant
- roadhouse bar
And I understand it is the Roadhouse Saloon story.
- And I understand it is the Roadhouse Saloon story.
- You ever you ever had a Texas Roadhouse bread?
- Texas Roadhouse copycat air fryer fried Pickles.
- I'd be like Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse steak.
- You know, I worked one day as a damn chef's apprentice over at Everett Roadhouse Cafe or whatever that shit hole was.
- You know, I worked one day as a damn chef's apprentice over at over at Roadhouse Cafe or whatever that shit hole was.
Examples
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Frank almost didn't make it around a curve, and they decided to stop at the next roadhouse.
Fiction book (1990) -
I want to pull up my rig on the roadside and go to the Roadhouse and get a steak.
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I saw you at the roadhouse yesterday.
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Meet me at the Roadhouse on Route Nine in a half hour.
Fiction book (2000) -
So listen, I own a roadhouse.
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Maybe you and I hike up to that roadhouse and get a drink?
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There's a roadhouse down behind the mountain.
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But mostly she went out just for the evening to one of the roadhouses around Butte.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sometimes, Joe took him to the Lone Wolf Inn, a roadhouse out on the Cristoval Highway.
Fiction book (1998) -
The aforementioned lounge is a faded old roadhouse, with a gravel parking lot strewn with mud-covered trucks.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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2.5
A small building near a house where visitors stay
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4.8
A house where people pay to live and get meals
2
2.0
A building where people drink alcohol and eat simple meals
An inn where people changed horses and rested on old mail routes
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
How Lively
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roadhouse is made of road and house and literally means a 'house by the road' where travellers could stop to eat, drink and rest. That's why today a roadhouse usually means an inn or roadside restaurant, often with meals, drinks and sometimes music or dancing.