Grogshop

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Grogshop
A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

(n) grogshop
A place where grog or other spirituous liquor is sold; a dram-shop.

Usage in literature

Claret drawn in profusion from the gown-boy's grogshop. "Men's Wives" by William Makepeace Thackeray

Exeunt wine-bibbers, topers, grogshop keepers, Drayton, Ben Jonson and William Shakspeare. "Around The Tea-Table" by T. De Witt Talmage

The grogshop is its center of power. "The Red Record" by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Consequently the woman got married and died, and her husband having proved objectionable was evicted and the grogshop extinguished. "Disturbed Ireland" by Bernard H. Becker

Retailers did not hesitate to sell playing-cards or dice, nor were the grogshops closed for want of stamped licenses. "Beginnings of the American People" by Carl Lotus Becker