sports bar

noun

: a bar catering especially to sports fans and typically containing several televisions and often sports memorabilia

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Still, this is more likely to hit hotels and small businesses than sports bars, which may rely on ESPN. Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024 Following one of the first-ever sports bars dedicated to showing and promoting women’s sports, The Sports Bra, opening in Portland in April 2022, Seattle’s Rough & Tumble debuted in Seattle. 2024 brought a massive crowd to the opening of Minneapolis’ A Bar of Their Own and Watch Me! Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Better yet, find a different 24/7 pizza joint with amazing Buffalo chicken slices, perhaps, or seek out another sports bar that isn’t right in your ex’s neighborhood. Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024 The sports bar also regularly airs NHL games, with the spot being a popular gathering place for fans of the Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators, which the Admirals are a feeder team for. Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sports bar 

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sports bar was in 1975

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“Sports bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sports%20bar. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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