grogshop
/grog-shop/US // ˈgrɒgˌʃɒp //UK // (ˈɡrɒɡˌʃɒp) //
画廊
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
British.
- : a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
Examples
Groups of men moved over from the grogshop to the chapel door.
The police barrack at Ballinascarthy was once a grogshop, given by the landlord to a dairymaid who had been long in his service.
It was all sordid enough, and dirty—a typical frontier grogshop; but the thing of most interest to me was the proprietor.
The fisherman in the jumper wavered to and fro between Christlove and the ancient grogshop.
The half-cured drunkard remembered putting down his head, and starting for the nearest grogshop on a run, with a yell.
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