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shebeen|ʃɪˈbiːn|
Also shebean, shibbeen.
[Orig. Anglo-Irish; of obscure origin.
The ending is Irish -ín as in caubeen, colleen, etc.; an improbable conjecture is that the word is f. Irish seapa ad. Eng. shop n. In recent Irish dictionaries it is given as Irish, with the spelling sibín.]
a. Chiefly in Ireland and Scotland: A shop or house where excisable liquors are sold without a licence (see quot. 1903); any low wayside public-house.
c1787Kilmainham Minit in Sk. Irel. 60 Yrs. Ago (1847) 88 With de stuff to a shebeen we hied. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 382 The hovel, which proved to be a house of entertainment, such as in Ireland we call a shebeen. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxvi, The money your honour gave me that I spint at the shebeen upon the 'lecthors. 1859All Year Round No. 12. 285 Here we came to a shibbeen, and for the third time the young doctor got down and called for whisky. 1892Rev. Reviews V. 272/1 Twelve hundred shebeens in Cardiff! 1903Act 3 Edw. VII, c. 25 §107 The word ‘shebeen’ shall mean and include every house, shop, room, premises or place in which exciseable liquors are trafficked in, by retail, without a certificate and excise licence in that behalf.
b. In South Africa, a (usu. Black) illicit establishment where liquor is sold or consumed. In extended sense: a drinking-party, esp. among West Indians.
1900Kruger's Secret Service vi. 135 In Fordsburg there was a shebeen kept by a certain Pulinski... Pulinski took me inside, where I found the place to be full of Kaffirs. 1931J. Mockford Khama x. 77 So zealous was Khama in enforcing his ban on beer, that he afterwards led raids on shebeens himself and fired the huts of the brewers with his own hand. 1943Cape Argus 13 Jan. 3 Carousals that cannot be described as shebeens, but that are almost as mischievous. 1944I. D. du Plessis Cape Malays v. 81 Shebeens have sprung up in clusters, wine is brought in from Monday to Saturday by ‘runners’. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 472/5 The flashy, teeming, squalid world of the urban localities..laughter, gramophones, shebeens, and ‘tsotsi’ thugs making night excursions dangerous for Africans and police alike. 1962D. Lessing Golden Notebk. i. 57 Peter..spends his last night in the Colony drunk, and by chance encounters his dark love in some shabby Shebeen. 1975New Society 10 July 71/1 The West Indians [in Southampton], who are more free and easy, and tend to have noisy all night parties and shebeens. 1980Times 31 May 5/1 The South African Government, after years of battling to control illicit drinking dens, known as shebeens, in black townships, has conceded defeat and legalized them.
c. attrib. as shebeen-house, shebeen-shop; also shebeen-keeper; shebeen queen S. Afr., a woman who runs a shebeen.
1798J. Holt Mem. (1838) I. 5, I struck off the road to a shebeen house or cabin in which whiskey is sold without a license. 1800M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent Wks. 1848 IV. 53 His Honour..sent for more spirits from a shebean-house [note] Shebean-house, a hedge alehouse. Shebean properly means weak small-beer, taplash. c1815Song, ‘Oh, St. Patrick was a Gentleman’ v, His mother kept a shebeen shop In the town of Enniskillen. 1852Mundy Antipodes (1857) 29 Every mile or two has some establishment of the kind, ranging between the hotel and the shebeen house. 1922Joyce Ulysses 443 In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats. 1954R. St. John Through Malan's Afr. xxx. 236 Shebeen queens were warned to stop their liquor selling. 1977Time 10 Jan. 24/1 After the fire-bombing of a few that stayed open, the shebeen queens (women that operate most speakeasies) duly shut up shop, and Sowetoans did their Christmas drinking quietly at home.
Hence sheˈbeener, one who keeps or frequents a shebeen. sheˈbeening, the keeping of a shebeen; the illegal selling of liquor.
1870Figaro 14 Dec. (Farmer), Three extensive captures of shebeeners were made in Glasgow on Sunday. One hundred and twenty persons were found in the dens. 1873Scotsman 15 Feb. (ibid.), Grocers, Shebeeners, and others who sell liquors which are consumed on their Premises, and who hold no Licence to do so. 1887Scot. Leader 15 Dec. 4 ‘Shebeening’ by an Edinburgh Publican. 1906Daily Mail 17 Aug. 3/7 A Sheffield barber was fined..for shebeening. 1942Shebeener [see beer-hall s.v. beer n.1 4]. 1950Shebeener [see dop n.3 2]. |