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roadhouse

[rohd-haus] / ˈroʊdˌhaʊs /






NOUN
motel
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The songs Stewart wrote carried the flavor of the roadhouse scene; Mr. McDonough likens one of his records to “a beer-stained telegraph from a honky-tonk foxhole.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Every so often, we get a performance — at a graduation party, a county fair, a wedding, a roadhouse, a prestigious opening slot, where the crowds react as if they’re extras in a TV show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

In contrast to strait-laced Seattle, where suds stopped flowing at 2 a.m. and never on Sundays, Georgetown’s unregulated taverns, eateries and roadhouses were open round-the-clock, serving laborers the hoppy product of their labors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

The group performed in and around Fort Payne until 1973, when the cousins decided to pursue music full time and started working in bars and roadhouses throughout the South.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

The film “Anacostia Delta: Home of the World’s Great ‘Unknown’ Guitarists” promises to shed light on the lasting influence of guitarist Danny Gatton and the music of D.C. and Prince George’s County roadhouses and honky-tonks.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017

Instead, lurid stories were concocted in the back rooms of nearby roadhouses.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp




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