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roadhouse

[rohd-hous] / 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

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

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

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

On the verandas of funny little gray roadhouses with dripping red roofs officers sat over their breakfast coffee.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)




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