noun
groggery
Groggery (noun) means (informal) A place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
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(informal) A place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
"This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery."
— Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog (1915)
"I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could."
— Various, Stories of Achievement (1925)
"An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed."
— Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust (1920)
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Etymology
Formed from grog and -ery.
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"groggery" (noun) means (informal) A place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
