beer tent

noun

At a fair or festival, a tent set up for the purpose of selling and consuming beer and other alcoholic beverages.

Meanings

nounbeer tent (plural beer tents)

plural beer tents

  1. 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
APA

beer tent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beer%20tent

MLA

“beer tent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beer%20tent. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beer tent,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beer%20tent.

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