Definition of speakeasy in English:
speakeasy
nounPlural speakeasies ˈspiːkiːziˈspikˌizi
informal (in the US during Prohibition) an illicit liquor shop or drinking club.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's like wandering into a prohibition-era speakeasy.
- Speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
- Dick learned from the men that Abe North had been beaten to death at a speakeasy in New York.
- He believes it may have been used as a speakeasy in the 1920s.
- Mae, though not averse to visiting the occasional speakeasy, preferred to drink at home.
- His nightly path could be traced straight from the stage to the nearest speakeasy.
- The court will reconvene in the local speakeasy.
- These songs belong in a smoky speakeasy, slinking along the walls, chain smoking and breaking hearts.
- It was once a speakeasy and just before prohibition was repealed a bunch of boozers were massacred by cops during a raid.
- The popular conception of Prohibition is that speakeasies abounded, gangsters and bootleggers of all sorts flourished, and every American gladly flouted the law.
Synonyms
establishment, restaurant, bar, club, nightclub