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Barroom   Listen
noun
Barroom  n.  
1.
A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
2.
A commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
Synonyms: bar-room, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom.





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"Barroom" Quotes from Famous Books



... slightly on his stout legs. After a time he chose a seat with great deliberation and continued to stare at the young man. "Have a cigar?" He took one from his waistcoat pocket and held it towards the young man. "It's a good one,—none of your barroom smokes,—oh, I see you are one of those cigarette fiends, same ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
 
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... wish to talk with men of world-business of any sort, they do not seek the parlor. The street, the barroom, the postoffice, some public place they want where they may meet freely on broader ground. For the parlor is the women's meeting ground—has been for long their only meeting ground except the ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 
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... confirmed drinker, holding an inferior place, passed by men of lesser caliber. He struggled fitfully but always slipped when the next "good fellow" slapped him on the back and invited him to have a drink. One day he stepped out of a barroom with a group of his cronies, and though he walked straight there was a reckless, happy feeling in him that pushed him on to his folly. A young lady standing on a street corner waiting for a car caught his eye. Signaling ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
 
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... four dollars and eighty cents in change. He put the money in his pocketbook, and the paper and envelopes in his jacket- pocket, and returned to the tavern well pleased with his success. Mr. Holden was in the barroom, taking a glass of "bitters," and had not noticed the ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
 
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... could relate. He was mad with fury of the fight. A mere animal defending life with every means at hand, caring nothing for either wound or hurt so that he won out in the end. Mike was out of it, but the two grappling him fought like wild cats, rough barroom fighters, resorting to any tactics to disable their opponent. Yet it was this that saved him. Crazed as he was, madly as his brain whirled in the fierce struggle, his long training held supreme—he knew how to fight, remembered instinctively ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish
 
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... over to the barroom," said the gardener. "That Hellig loves his liquor, and Snall likes a ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
 
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... downright doctor. "It's a barroom murder and you cannot get around it; and I, for one, don't try. But now you're in for it, and you've got ...
— Gold • Stewart White
 
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Words linked to "Barroom" :   barrelhouse, speakeasy, taphouse, saloon, cocktail lounge, sawdust saloon, public house, honky-tonk, bar, taproom, pothouse, room, pub, ginmill



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