gin joint

plural gin joints

1. datedslangA commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, especially one which is shabby or downmarket.

   Rick Blaine: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

   1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca (motion picture)

   2 more examples

   The heroin trade has also flourished in Ruili, along with all the ancillary businesses of bordertowns: casinos, gin joints, a glitzy bowling alley, beauty parlors and garish short-time hotels catering to bigger-spending debauchers.

   1999 September 27, Anthony Spaeth, “Sex, Drugs and The Roll of Dice”, in Time, retrieved 22 Mar 2020

   The Tanager was founded on East Fourth Street in a former barbershop, then relocated in 1953 to 90 East 10th, a cheaper, narrow, four-story building upstairs from a gin joint.

   2017 January 10, Randy Kennedy, “'Inventing Downtown' Recalls When Artists Ran the Galleries”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Mar 2020

   Synonyms: bar, public house