groggery

plural groggeries

1. datedAn establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.

   This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.

   1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog

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   If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?

   1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal

   Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninviting groggery, when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance.

   1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.

   The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.

   1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success

   An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed.

   1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust

   I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could.

   1925, Various, Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)

   Synonyms: grog shanty