shebeen

Shebeen or sheebeen; an unlicensed public-house or alehouse where spirits are sold on the sly.

On reaching St. John's he would go to a shebeen that he knew, in a narrow and secluded back street, and there rent a room.

Schele de Vere derives it from the French cabane, but it seems rather more likely that it is from the Irish shebeen.

In this lane at the time to which we allude the widow Mulready kept the shebeen shop, of which mention has before been made.

We pulled up near a picturesque little shebeen, to water the horses and get our Highland wraps well about us.