(during prohibition) an illegal barroom.
a barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served.
Coming back, he walked through the barroom, where people waiting for the train were drinking.
I quickly followed suit, and descending into the barroom accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.
There was a long barroom downstairs, elegantly hung with oil paintings, and a negro orchestra played every night.
American temperance crusader who conducted a series of raids on saloons, in which she would break bottles of liquor and destroy barroom furniture with a hatchet.
As with all great barroom chats, the answers didn't matter, only our ability to prolong the discussion with quips (" it's not a village, "Ray said." it's a Hamlet! ") and additional rounds of drinks.
