Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place for the illegal sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, as during Prohibition in the United States.
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- noun An
illegal saloon ortavern operated during the AmericanProhibition period in the 1920s.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (during prohibition) an illegal barroom
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Examples
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The term speakeasy is far from what I’d call 57 Napoli.
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We now have "speakeasy" - type establishments all over the country.
Karl Kozel: It's Getting Better All The Time Karl Kozel 2010
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We now have "speakeasy" - type establishments all over the country.
Karl Kozel: It's Getting Better All The Time Karl Kozel 2010
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We now have "speakeasy" - type establishments all over the country.
Karl Kozel: It's Getting Better All The Time Karl Kozel 2010
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We now have "speakeasy" - type establishments all over the country.
Karl Kozel: It's Getting Better All The Time Karl Kozel 2010
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Recalling the era, the songwriter Alec Wilder once said, “A pretty girl in a speakeasy was the most beautiful girl in the world.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The speakeasy was a substitute for the saloon that would prove to be much more than a saloon.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Recalling the era, the songwriter Alec Wilder once said, “A pretty girl in a speakeasy was the most beautiful girl in the world.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The speakeasy was a substitute for the saloon that would prove to be much more than a saloon.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Upstairs hidden away, above a speakeasy was the John Barlett show.
oroboros commented on the word speakeasy
Probably first ran across this word in my potboiler days.
October 21, 2007
bilby commented on the word speakeasy
"Once the Xanadu of the Baathist ruling class, the 10-square-kilometer Green Zone, as described by journalist Scott Johnson, is now a surreal theme park of the American way of life:
'Women in shorts and T-shirts jog down broad avenues and the Pizza Inn does a brisk business from the parking lot of the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy. Near the Green Zone Bazaar, Iraqi kids hawk pornographic DVDs to soldiers. Sheik Fuad Rashid, the U.S.-appointed imam of the local mosque, dresses like a nun, dyes his hair platinum blond and claims that Mary Mother of Jesus appeared to him in a vision (hence the getup). On any given night, residents can listen to karaoke, play badminton or frequent one of several rowdy bars, including an invitation-only speakeasy run by the CIA.'"
- 'Return To Sender', Mike Davis, 14 April 2006.
February 28, 2008