barroom

Alternative forms

• bar room

Etymology

From bar +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

barroom (plural barrooms)

1. (Canada, US) A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

   Synonym: taproom

   • 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:

     Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.