sports bar

noun

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

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Make a reservation with your couch or local sports bar for this game. Chris Branch, New York Times, 16 May 2025 Your mouth will be full of gauze or cotton balls and your eyes will be half-closed like last call at a sports bar. Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025 Though Edwin Lagunas opened La Cantina, a sports bar, in July 2022, following guidance from city inspectors, in December the city posted a notice ordering him to close. Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 So much so that Danielle and her mother had joined Marge Petrone and her daughter — Richard’s sister — at a local sports bar earlier that night. Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sports bar

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 27 May. 2025.

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