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▪ I. pub, n. colloq.|pʌb|
[Shortened from public n. 4.]
1. A public house, an inn.
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 78 Pub, or Public, a public house. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 155 The wealthy proprietress of a busy ‘pub’. 1890F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family 70 A barmaid from a Waterloo Road pub. 1893K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) ii. v. 188 It's Molloy's fault... He got tanked at the pub last night. 1922Joyce Ulysses 70 Waiting outside pubs to bring da home. 1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Pub, hotel. 1936M. Allis Eng. Prelude xxiii. 247 First comes the pub, the Fox and Hounds. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 175 There are German beer shops turned into typical English ‘Pubs’. 1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice vi. 170 She was surprised at the rapidity of [the town's] growth. In 1928 it was about three houses and a pub. 1970M. Greener Penguin Dict. Commerce 268 A pub offering accommodation to casual customers will probably be a hotel within the definition of the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and the various Innkeepers Acts. 1980‘D. Kavanagh’ Duffy ii. 36 They met at a drinkers' pub near Baker Street Station.
2. attrib. and Comb., as pub-door, pub food, pub-friend, pub-goer, pub-grub, pub-keeper, pub-landlord, pub manager, pub meal, pub mirror, pub parlour, pub-singer; pub-going, pub-running, pub-spieling vbl. ns.; pub-hunting ppl. adj.; pub-crawl: see crawl n.1 b; hence as v. intr.; pub-crawler; pub-crawling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; pub-life, the society of public houses; pub lunch, a lunch eaten in a pub; hence pub-lunch v. intr., pub-luncher; pub rock, rock music of a type played in public houses; pub-stiff N.Z. slang, a look-out or sentinel acting on behalf of a licensee selling alcoholic drinks after closing-time; pub theatre, a public house at which theatrical performances take place; also, theatrical representation performed in a public house; pub-time, (a) the hour at which a public house opens or closes; (b) the time shown by a clock in a public house, with reference to the custom of advancing this slightly to bring forward closing-time.
1915Pub-crawl [see crawl n.1 b]. 1937Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 910/1 Mr. Lyons does not ‘pub-crawl’ as a writer in search of copy. 1959[see crawl n.1 b]. 1972J. Symons Players & Game xxiii. 182 He had taken a girl..on a mild variety of pub crawl. 1974Canadian Mag. (Toronto) 16 Mar. 2/3 Across Canada, kids aren't packing the discothèques; instead, they're pub-crawling.
1910Daily Chron. 28 Jan. 4/4 These ‘pub-crawlers’ have captured the illiterate and the unthinking. 1976J. R. L. Anderson Redundancy Pay ix. 145 You're turning me into quite a pub-crawler.
1919‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Enjoying Life 75 Drunken Barnabee's Journal..is rhymed Latin verse..describing the author's ‘pub crawlings’ up and down the country. 1921F. B. Young Black Diamond vii. 73, I bain't goin' to keep you in pub-crawling any longer. 1973‘H. Carmichael’ Candles for Dead vi. 74 A pub-crawling reporter. 1980I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers i. 83 This sort of urban life suited Tim, pub-crawling, wandering, looking in shop-windows.
1960T. Hughes Lupercal 18 The lamp above the pub-door Wept yellow when he went out.
1977Times 11 June 11/7 English people care more about pub food than they used to.
1959J. Cary Captive & Free xviii. 85 His father had been a steady worker, but completely devoid of ambition; a man whose only interests were football, darts, his pub-friends.
1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences vi. 160 Peter is primarily a pub-goer.
Ibid. 161 The social differences which come out in pub-going. Ibid. 162 The new pub-going habit for girls and women is a genuine problem.
1978Country Life 19 Oct. 1186/4 There are ‘lounge bars’ and ‘singing bars’ and many places advertising ‘pub grub’.
1922Joyce Ulysses 599 He commented adversely on the desertion of Stephen by all his pubhunting confrères but one.
1925W. Deeping Sorrell & Son vi. 57 Our pub-keepers rarely visualize the atmosphere of a garden. 1980D. Francis Reflex vi. 67 The pub-keeper from the Sussex village where he lived.
1909Daily Chron. 17 July 4/7 Mr. Lewis Harcourt's reference to ‘the ground and the pub-landlord seeking to hold the common fort’.
1944Wyndham Lewis Let. 5 Jan. (1963) 374, I gather from Augustus that the pub-life of London is functioning as of yore.
1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard v. 130 When he reported, Sneed had a pub lunch with the Governor. 1971‘F. Clifford’ Blind Side ii. iv. 113 He pub-lunched in Richmond. 1975Times 8 Mar. 10/4 Cheapness is often the only virtue of the British pub lunch.
1971Times 2 June 6/1 The sound of pub-lunchers arising merrily from below. 1977P. Cosgrave Cheyney's Law iv. 39 He waited, no longer the tweedy city stroller, pub luncher, book buyer.
1973K. Giles File on Death v. 118, I got a letter asking if I had perhaps a vacancy for a pub manager.
1975P. McCutchan Very Big Bang x. 96 He would..snatch pub meals as and when he could.
1974Selfridges Bk. of Xmas 80 Victorian style pub mirrors..{pstlg}18.75 each. 1977J. Wilson Making Hate vii. 85 A reproduction Edwardian pub mirror.
1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 132 Little fleets..that put to sea and boldly sink Armadas In a pub parlour, in literary London, on certain evenings.
1976Star (Sheffield) 20 Nov., Pub-rock does a dying swan act at the weekend when Sheffield's most celebrated stronghold closes its doors to live entertainment. 1977Zigzag Apr. 39/2 Joe was bored with singing pub rock standards.
1973K. Giles File on Death v. 118, I own the local brewery... Pub-running has problems.
1975Radio Times 3 Apr. 17 George Formby... His songs..have passed..into the repertoires of every comic, impressionist and pub-singer.
1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails 38 Jack Drew talked too straight in the paper, and in spite of his proprietors—about pub spieling and such things.
1946F. Sargeson That Summer 63 The pub-stiff that was on the door told us to go upstairs.
1973Guardian 23 Jan. 10/1 Pub theatres are in vogue for the first time since Shakespeare's day. 1976Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 11/5 As the pint is pulled downstairs, an audience is held upstairs by one of the best examples of Pub Theatre to be found in London.
1947Dylan Thomas Let. 11 June (1966) 314 I'm used to working from after lunch until pub-time. 1968L. Meynell Death of Philanderer x. 167 The clock behind the bar would be showing ‘pub time’, that is..it would be at least five minutes fast.
▪ II. pub, n.2 Chiefly colloq.|pʌb|
Also with point.
[Shortened from publication n.; cf. *pub v.2]
= publication n. 2; also in titles = publications. Freq. as pub date.
1904Richardson & Morse Writings on Amer. Hist., 1902 p. xvi, Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications. Boston. Pub Col Soc of Mass. 1929G. G. Griffin Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc., 1925 p. xv, Am. Jew. hist. soc. pub. American Jewish historical society, publications, N.Y. 1973Publishers Weekly 13 Aug. 30/2 Mark Twain..decided to publish ‘Huckleberry Finn’ by subscription in advance of publication. After pub date, Twain received an unexpected publicity break. 1987Boxing News 21 Aug. 3/3 Your Boxing News has all of the USA boxing pubs..beat by a mile.
▪ III. pub, v.
[f. prec. n.]
a. int. To frequent public houses. Also with it.
1889Jerome Three Men in Boat ii, We decided that we would..hotel it, and inn it, and pub. it..when it was wet. 1950John o' London's 24 Nov. 614/1 Pubbing through Edinburgh's Old Town and the Leith waterfront. 1960L. Cooper Accomplices iii. i. 152 We went pubbing together. 1972S. Chance Septimus & Minster Ghost vii. 62 ‘Can't have you pubbing in your canonicals,’ she said, going to the door and looking out into the alley.
b. intr. To own or manage a public house.
1936M. Franklin All that Swagger xiv. 130 The profits to be made from fools by pubbing could add to it.
▪ IV. pub, v.2|pʌb|
Also with point.
[Shortened from publish(ed): see publish v.; cf. *pub n.2]
a. pa. pple. Of a book, etc.: published. (Chiefly as a written abbreviation.)
b. v. trans. = publish v. 4 a. Chiefly colloq.
1877W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) I. 70 Williams's copper plate Map of US, Canada, Central Am, West Indies pub by Brenner & Atwood 402 Locust st Phil. 1888Ibid. II. 451 Pieces pub'd in Herald. 1959Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 Nov. tm64/1 Representation of gladiator on a shield..Pub. 8–25–59. 1977in Amer. Speech (1982) LVII. 28 Boowatt is pubbed by Garth Danielson. 1978Purdy & Millgate Coll. Lett. T. Hardy I. 102 Tauchnitz paid {pstlg}60 to pub. A Laodicean later in 1882. |