(n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
Example Sentences:
(1) A well-known example is the Indorama Shebeen el-Kom spinning factory, which has witnessed 95 strikes since being privatised in 2006 after the new owners refused to pay up to 10m Egyptian liras in bonuses to staff.
(2) We had the young Nadine Gordimer jiving with black tsotsis in shebeens.
(3) So we had a month of: "Hi, I'm Ned Boulting, and I'm in a shebeen", and "That was a goal for all Africa", not to mention Rob and Dan Walker on the BBC's ridiculous bus with their "what we did on our holidays" tour.
(4) Now the legend of Willie and his riotous shebeen-cum-speakeasy has been resurrected in a community play, Tales from the Golden Slipper, with words by the playwright Alan Plater and music by Orkney's most celebrated resident composer, Peter Maxwell Davies .
(5) It saw Sampson drinking in the shebeens, recruiting extraordinary talent, and letting his African staff express themselves.
(6) Ngcolomba sat in a hut to which his aunts were invited, to present him with gifts and impart views such as "please do not spend all your time in the shebeen".
(7) And as Flett says: "Being up on stage, with everyone playing instruments and enjoying themselves, reminds me just how Willie's shebeen used to be in the old days.
(8) Eat local food and listen to local musicians in the shebeens.
(9) The latter was a celebration of a famous Orcadian character, Willie Farquhar, who kept a shebeen on the island from the war years through to the 1960s, when the authorities closed him down.
(10) MacInnes gives us a glimpse of a secret London of nightclubs and shebeens, petty criminals, prostitutes, corrupt cops, outsiders by race, sexuality or choice.
(11) He first met Nelson Mandela in a shebeen (drinking den).
Speakeasy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(2) Opened by cousins Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns in a row of brownstones on 1 January 1930, 21 has continued to draw the literati and glitterati to 52nd Street – nicknamed “Swing Street” – home to more than 30 speakeasies.
(3) In the Speakeasy Bar that evening I heard tales of Bigfoot sightings and monster trees.
(4) Open Mon-Wed 1pm-3am, Thurs 1pm-3.30am, Fri 1pm-4.30am, Sun 5pm-4.30am Ky Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ky is an Asian-themed speakeasy that’s behind a graffiti-tagged wall that you might otherwise mistake for the entrance to an abandoned building.
(5) The delicious irony is that this stylish brick-walled speakeasy sits below the former headquarters of the Prohibition Department.
(6) Sleek, white-topped benches await the arrival of their many and varied workers, while walls open out like the secret cabinets of a speakeasy bar to reveal whiteboards for the scribblings of what, its creators no doubt fervently hope, will be the musings of spontaneous genius.
(7) The downstairs bar is evocative of a speakeasy from the era.
(8) But what I especially enjoy about Weird Al's song is the way he deems tacky certain aspects of modern life that are now so common they can pass almost unseen: people Instagramming every meal (an "unfollow" offence if ever there was one); people who keep old liquor bottles in a pointless attempt to create a kind of speakeasy vibe; live-tweeting private occasions, and so on.
(9) The regulars at this suburban speakeasy would say so.
(10) Illegal drinking dens had long flourished in big cities; indeed, the word "speakeasy" probably dates from the late 1880s.
(11) Check listings for details Valentines Tucked away – no, really, this place is hard to find – on SW Ankeny Street, Valentines feels like a speakeasy.
(12) Open daily 3pm-1.30am Williams and Graham Williams & Graham, Denver Walk into this speakeasy in the Lower Highlands neighbourhood in Denver and you'll think you've stumbled into a tiny bookstore from wild west days, but the shelves part and you are whisked into a back room where the cocktails are some of the best you will taste in the city.
(13) Now the legend of Willie and his riotous shebeen-cum-speakeasy has been resurrected in a community play, Tales from the Golden Slipper, with words by the playwright Alan Plater and music by Orkney's most celebrated resident composer, Peter Maxwell Davies .
(14) Two days later the papers carried reports of a police raid on a speakeasy-cum-brothel in a smart part of Islamabad, called the Cathouse.
(15) Here, the speakeasy still lies behind the grand piano in one of its ballrooms.
(16) US presidents have been dining at the former speakeasy’s coveted tables since Franklin D Roosevelt more than 80 years ago, and it is said that John F Kennedy spent the eve of his inauguration there.
(17) Living in splendour in the city's Lexington hotel, he was said to be raking in some $100m a year from casinos and speakeasies.
(18) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
(19) With art deco decor, it still has that sophisticated speakeasy vibe.
(20) We wander past Twin Anchors , a dive bar with blackened windows – Mike tells us about how the area used to be home to dozens of German brewers, and the area proliferated with speakeasies during Prohibition.