| 释义 |
speakeasy slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈspiːkiːzɪ|
Also speak-easy.
[f. speak v. + easy adv.]
A shop or bar where alcoholic liquor is sold illegally. Also attrib.
1889Voice (N.Y.) 14 Nov., Hundreds of unlicensed dealers in both cities continued to run under the names of ‘clubs’ and ‘speak-easies’. 1895L. Pendleton Corona of Nantahalas iv. 45 A sort of rural ‘speak easy’, where the colourless liquid was poured into the purchasers' bottles from a new and innocent-looking kerosene can. 1903A. H. Lewis Boss xiii. 162 That..no side-doors or speak⁓easy racket [should be] stood for. 1922Joyce Ulysses 418 In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir. 1946[see creep joint s.v. creep n. 6]. 1958S. Traill in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 75 Every cheap speakeasy had its resident piano player. 1961W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vii. 138 Inevitably some of these underground caves became ‘speak-easy’ dens where the local black-marketeers sold vino to the troops. 1968[see prohibition era s.v. prohibition 6]. 1982Age (Melbourne) 3 Feb. 6/6 Unable to find a respectable job, she first became a bootlegger during the Prohibition era and ran a speakeasy. |