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roadhouse

[rohd-haus] / ˈroʊdˌhaʊs /






NOUN
motel
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Ms. Reilly, whose Beth is unbearably snide, doesn’t really act but is still a presence, partly because she dresses like a roadhouse waitress rather than a cattle mogul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The tumultuous era at the town’s landmark roadhouse and concert venue Pappy and Harriet’s appears to have ended as new management repairs relations with the surrounding community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

Taverns and roadhouses of which no trace remains today offered entertainment at any figure, and of almost any character, that the customer desired.

From The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond by Frederic Austin Ogg


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