speakeasies in English
noun
1
(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.
Speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
Use "speakeasies" in a sentence
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1. Barrelhouses: as in speakeasies, nightclubs.
2. You know how many speakeasies in this one county?
3. In the United States, illegal bars during Prohibition were called "speakeasies", "blind pigs", and "blind tigers".
4. Johny Bootlegger is inspired by the Prohibition era of the 1920s – where many creative cocktails were invented in speakeasies