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ˈdram-shop Chiefly U.S.
[dram n.1 3 b.]
A shop or bar where spirituous liquor is sold in drams or small quantities.
1725New-England Courant 8–15 Feb. 1/2 Certainly the Devil had brought himself as well as his Hogs to a fine Market, when he was thus expos'd to Sale in a Dram-Shop. 1761J. Adams Diary in Wks. (1850) II. 122 Taverns and dram-shops are therefore placed in every corner of the town. 1839Lincoln, Boston, etc. Gaz. 12 Feb. 3/3 A detached part of these premises is a dram-shop. 1849F. Parkman California & Oregon Trail 445 We passed..Boone's grocery and old Vogle's dram-shop. 1875Holland Sevenoaks i. 2 A row of stores and dram-shops and butchers' establishments. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse iii. 62 The Indians..were quite capable of boycotting his dramshop. |