See speakeasy on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Deverbal from speak easy (= speak quietly [interj.]); for the history, see Wikipedia at speakeasy § Etymology.",
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"name": "Bars",
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"Economics",
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"word": "smokeasy"
}
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"ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90:",
"text": "Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.",
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"ref": "2020, David Rosen, Prohibition New York City, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:",
"text": "Retuning^([sic]) to Gotham, he came to intimately know Manhattan's speakeasy scene. “At a speakeasy,” Hirschfeld acknowledged, “you had to be known to get in...each place had its own clientele.” Membership cards, really fake IDs, were common.",
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"saloon"
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"tavern",
"tavern"
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"(historical) An illegal saloon or tavern, especially one operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s."
],
"synonyms": [
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"word": "blind pig"
},
{
"word": "blind tiger"
}
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kontrabandna krǎčma",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "контрабандна кръчма"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Měiguó fēifǎ dìxià jiǔbā",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "美國非法地下酒吧 /美国非法地下酒吧"
},
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"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
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"word": "smugkro"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "salakapakka"
},
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "supīkuījī",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "スピークイージー"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "lönnkrog"
}
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"saloon"
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],
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},
{
"word": "blind tiger"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kontrabandna krǎčma",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "контрабандна кръчма"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Měiguó fēifǎ dìxià jiǔbā",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "美國非法地下酒吧 /美国非法地下酒吧"
},
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "smugkro"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "salakapakka"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "supīkuījī",
"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
"word": "スピークイージー"
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"sense": "illegal saloon operated during the Prohibition period",
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"word": "speakeasy"
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