Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small refrigerator, as in a hotel room, stocked with beverages.

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  • noun A small refrigerator in a hotel room containing drinks and snacks.

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  • noun sideboard with compartments for holding bottles

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, sensors in refrigerators alert maids when the minibar is running low on Coca-Cola.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Hotel rooms 2005

  • It’s a fun, high-energy place that specializes in updated Caribbean cuisine but includes within its core a separate space, called minibar, that serves unusually inventive tapas—a cotton candy foie gras, a beet “tumbleweed”—that wouldn’t be out of place at elBulli itself.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • It’s a fun, high-energy place that specializes in updated Caribbean cuisine but includes within its core a separate space, called minibar, that serves unusually inventive tapas—a cotton candy foie gras, a beet “tumbleweed”—that wouldn’t be out of place at elBulli itself.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • The suites boast all the usual services (such as minibar, complimentary internet, anti-allergic floor and carpets), but the rooms are furnished differently, with outstanding pieces of the ultra-baroque sophistication.

    PR.com Press Releases Epoque Hotels 2010

  • Horizontal / vertical "minibar" controls (see screenshots).

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Horizontal / vertical "minibar" controls (see screenshots).

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • But just now, on the train from Fribourg back home, the productive and calm silence was interrupted by an announcement where to find the restaurant in four languages, and when the "minibar" passed the upper deck of our wagon, the voice again made sure we knew.

    Planet Debian 2009

  • Horizontal / vertical "minibar" controls (see screenshots).

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Horizontal / vertical "minibar" controls (see screenshots).

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • "I had no idea what it was," Fukushima — who at the time was chef de cuisine at Jose Andres' cutting edge minibar restaurant — said of finding what turned out to be the herb known as stevia.

    Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds 2011

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