speakeasy
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈspiːkiˌiːzi/
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bar clandestino
- The house had been a speakeasy once; booths surrounded a hardwood dance floor.
- speakeasy during Prohibition
- flappers and speakeasies
- speakeasy of the 1920s
Yeah, but it's supposed to look, it's, it's like a kind of Speakeasy, like, you know, fancy underground stuff.
- Yeah, but it's supposed to look, it's, it's like a kind of Speakeasy, like, you know, fancy underground stuff.
- And on foot, four months in the UK, gathering people in rooms, speakeasies in the dead of night in places that you shouldn't gather.
- Later this month, Blockbuster will be returning to Los Angeles, not as a video store, but as a Speakeasy style pop up bar.
- He runs a Speakeasy and he's like the sort of like carnal urges guy.
- And so the in the movie it's cross cut between him trying to get a regular job and them going and trying to shoot up this Speakeasy.
Examples
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But those underground rooms were turned into speakeasies during Prohibition.
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Did you know that there used to be a speakeasy here during Prohibition?
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Prohibition meant you couldn't get a drink... ...unless you knew a speakeasy like this one.
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But in the saloon's place, thousands of speakeasies sprang up in very small spaces.
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The place quickly begins to resemble a speakeasy as all the mob bosses argue loudly with one another.
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Jaclyn Winquist is the manager of a speakeasy-themed saloon called Prohibition about a block from the convention venue.
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Well known speakeasies like Chumley's in New York even had some famous regulars like Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck or F Scott Fitzgerald.
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Did you know that there used to be a speakeasy here during Prohibition?
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Welcome to Andre Capone's, the best speakeasy this side of Chicago.
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Every smoke-filled bar, jazz club, and speakeasy in America blared Louis Armstrong.
Synonyms
75
5.8
A place where people drink alcohol and talk
14
4.0
A room where people drink alcohol at a counter
3
3.3
A bar in a hotel or restaurant that serves mixed drinks in a relaxed, stylish place
1
8.8
A cheap bar where people drink and are often rowdy
A cheap run-down bar where people drink and smoke
How Hidden
14
9.3
- UK
2
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speakeasy probably comes from the phrase speak easy, which meant 'speak quietly' so customers would not attract attention. That's why a speakeasy was a hidden or secret bar where people drank during the 1920s when alcohol was illegal.