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roadhouse

[rohd-haus] / ˈroʊdˌhaʊs /






NOUN
motel
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The next track, “Excited Delirium,” a high-speed roadhouse rave-up about unlawful search and seizure, is defiant and angry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Every so often, we get a performance — at a graduation party, a county fair, a wedding, a roadhouse, a prestigious opening slot, where the crowds react as if they’re extras in a TV show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

In contrast to strait-laced Seattle, where suds stopped flowing at 2 a.m. and never on Sundays, Georgetown’s unregulated taverns, eateries and roadhouses were open round-the-clock, serving laborers the hoppy product of their labors.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

But there was nothing glamorous about being a rock ’n’ roll musician playing nonstop in bars and roadhouses on a circuit centered on Ontario, Quebec and U.S. cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2022

Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

As a teen-ager, Guy quit pumping gas and learned his craft in roadhouses around Baton Rouge.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

"The Blue Horseshoe Tavern must be one of the old-time roadhouses that has had a revival of business since auto parties became popular," said Dick, as he and his brothers trudged along.

From The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor by Edward Stratemeyer


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