: a room or establishment whose main feature is a bar for the sale of liquor : bar entry 1 sense 5b
a barroom brawl
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a barroom long popular with working folks looking for a place to unwind at the end of the day
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With love and loss, inspiration and indignation, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is a folk tale, a small-town barroom yarn, a gothic novel, and a ghost story.
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
To be fair, the singer-songwriter doesn’t actually think of it as a song about a barroom pickup.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025
The details: The new building is set to relocate the existing O'Brien's Pub, the 75-person barroom venue that absorbed some of the Allston rock scene when the original Great Scott closed in 2020.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
The design—from dots’ musty, mystical barroom set to James Ortiz’s menagerie of puppets—is a delight, and Malloy’s lyrics are as funny and finely pointed as his music is fractal-like.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 June 2024
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
To be fair, the singer-songwriter doesn’t actually think of it as a song about a barroom pickup.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025
The details: The new building is set to relocate the existing O'Brien's Pub, the 75-person barroom venue that absorbed some of the Allston rock scene when the original Great Scott closed in 2020.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
The design—from dots’ musty, mystical barroom set to James Ortiz’s menagerie of puppets—is a delight, and Malloy’s lyrics are as funny and finely pointed as his music is fractal-like.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 June 2024
See All Example Sentences for barroom
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“Barroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barroom. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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barroom
noun
bar·room
ˈbär-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a place of business for the sale of alcoholic drinks
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