cocktail lounge

noun

: a public room (as in a hotel, club, or restaurant) where cocktails and other drinks are served

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Then, one night after a show at Oracle Arena, Green and his wife ended up at Chef German’s Oakland cocktail lounge, Sobre Mesa. Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 The businesses on the street today include Pageboy, 55 South cocktail lounge, the Club on Post restaurant, Splash and Velvet House boutique, and in the past year, the Downtown Association filled some empty space with a new Moment at Post Street pop-up retail operation with three merchants. Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 Adjacent to Tigress is the rooftop open-air cocktail lounge, Easy Tiger, where guests can enjoy the scenic Gulf of Mexico and Cocohatchee River views while sipping on craft cocktails by James Beard Award-winning mixologist Lynnette Marrero. Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2025 The former guardhouse is expected to be turned into a standalone vintage cocktail lounge. Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cocktail lounge

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cocktail lounge was in 1934

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“Cocktail lounge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cocktail%20lounge. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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