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roadhouse

[rohd-haus] / ˈroʊdˌhaʊs /






NOUN
motel
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The next track, “Excited Delirium,” a high-speed roadhouse rave-up about unlawful search and seizure, is defiant and angry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

His 1930 coffee pot-shaped Tacoma roadhouse survives today as Bob’s Java Jive.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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

But there was nothing glamorous about being a rock ’n’ roll musician playing nonstop in bars and roadhouses on a circuit centered on Ontario, Quebec and U.S. cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2022

Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

As a teen-ager, Guy quit pumping gas and learned his craft in roadhouses around Baton Rouge.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

A far cry from the barns and roadhouses that dot this countryside, the century-old museum building would look more at home on Portland’s South Park Blocks, 100 miles west.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2017

Gardens and roadhouses had appeared in the pleasanter places out of town.

From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters


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