dram
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It was, after all, an illegal dram shop during Prohibition and the need for secrecy was essential, especially since the queer patrons themselves were breaking the law by openly existing in public.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
To him, spirits provided what he called “accessible luxury” to customers — a dram of the good life even in an unstable economy.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
White has just played 90. b2-b3 when the dram really kicks in.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
This joke was a reference to the 1997 US war dram GI Jane, which saw Demi Moore shave her head to play Jordan O'Neil, the first woman to undergo Navy Seal training.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022
“It was some broken wittles—that’s what it was—and a dram of liquor, and a pie.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Line of Duty launched in 2012 and went on to become one of the most popular TV drams of the last decade.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
“So you have those thoughts. Whatever their drams and goals are, I’m OK with. The ones we are honoring, we know this is their last.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2019
Cullen, 59, recalls the noise it used to make: the clatter of drams packed with coal being raised from the shaft.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
While True Detective was as much of a standard police procedural as any of the other cop drams on TV, what differentiated it was all that “Time is a flat circle” talk that everyone quotes.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2014
The ounce is divided into 8 drams, 24 scruples, 480 grains.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Saul was profoundly conscious of the yoke; only he had not drammed that his own deliverance could come from such a quarter.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
For until the third century no one drammed of understanding the "John" of Rev. i.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Chance, my dear Bob,—chance is ten times a more intoxicating liquor than champagne, and once take to "dramming" with fortune, and you may bid a long adieu to sobriety!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
"I don't like to hear about that dramming business," was Val's comment to me later.
From Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett
Vocabulary lists containing dram
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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