: 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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Still, the bridge breaks into a livelier if bitter barroom bounce, evoking Wilde’s flashy comebacks.
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Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
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.
—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 rustic, black and white cover of their eponymous next album from 1969 was a visual metaphor for their rich, throwback sound, which incorporated dusty barroom laments, aching rock odes and urgent country balladry for a mash-up roping in rock, country and classic R&B.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
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Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
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.
—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 rustic, black and white cover of their eponymous next album from 1969 was a visual metaphor for their rich, throwback sound, which incorporated dusty barroom laments, aching rock odes and urgent country balladry for a mash-up roping in rock, country and classic R&B.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Barroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barroom. Accessed 23 Apr. 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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