Meanings
plural beer tents
- At a fair or festival, a tent set up for the purpose of selling and consuming beer and other alcoholic beverages.
“Sideshows, dancing.” “And two beer-tents,” said Nabby Adams.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 101
Translations
Finnish olutteltta
- oluttelttatent for selling and consuming beer
German Bierzelt
- Bierzelttent for selling and consuming beer
Swedish öltält
- öltälttent for selling and consuming beer
Cite this entry
beer tent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beer%20tent
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