pub

A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

Noun Commonwealth, Ireland

  1. A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
    • Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub. - 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
    • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the...

Origin

Clipping of public house.

Forms

pubs

Synonyms

alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house pub public house rummery saloon tavern watering hole

Hypernyms

building enterprise business establishment

Hyponyms

barrelhouse bar beer parlour bierkeller blind tiger blind pig brewpub cabaret cantina cocktail lounge dive free house gastropub gin mill hedge alehouse honky-tonk inn jook house juke juke joint liquor lounge lounge managed house micropub

Related

call time closing time drinking-up time happy hour last call last orders lock-in prop up the bar pub crawl café lodging place liquor store restaurant

Derived

brewpub corner pub gastropub Irish pub managed pub micropub pedal pub pubbish pubby pub cheese pub crawl pub-crawl pub crawler pub cricket pubgoer pub-goer pub golf pub grub pubkeeper publand publands publess publike pubmate

Noun video games

  1. A public server.
    • Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find. - 2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers,...

Origin

Clipping of public server.

Forms

pubs

Synonyms

alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house pub public house rummery saloon tavern watering hole

Hypernyms

building enterprise business establishment

Hyponyms

barrelhouse bar beer parlour bierkeller blind tiger blind pig brewpub cabaret cantina cocktail lounge dive free house gastropub gin mill hedge alehouse honky-tonk inn jook house juke juke joint liquor lounge lounge managed house micropub

Related

call time closing time drinking-up time happy hour last call last orders lock-in prop up the bar pub crawl café lodging place liquor store restaurant

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of publication.
    • registered pubs

Origin

Clipping of publication.

Forms

pubs

Synonyms

alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house pub public house rummery saloon tavern watering hole

Hypernyms

building enterprise business establishment

Hyponyms

barrelhouse bar beer parlour bierkeller blind tiger blind pig brewpub cabaret cantina cocktail lounge dive free house gastropub gin mill hedge alehouse honky-tonk inn jook house juke juke joint liquor lounge lounge managed house micropub

Related

call time closing time drinking-up time happy hour last call last orders lock-in prop up the bar pub crawl café lodging place liquor store restaurant

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of publisher.
    • Pubs say it's out of print, but it was supposed to have been reissued. - 1979 April 14, “Barbara G. (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

Origin

Clipping of publisher.

Forms

pubs

Synonyms

alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house pub public house rummery saloon tavern watering hole

Hypernyms

building enterprise business establishment

Hyponyms

barrelhouse bar beer parlour bierkeller blind tiger blind pig brewpub cabaret cantina cocktail lounge dive free house gastropub gin mill hedge alehouse honky-tonk inn jook house juke juke joint liquor lounge lounge managed house micropub

Related

call time closing time drinking-up time happy hour last call last orders lock-in prop up the bar pub crawl café lodging place liquor store restaurant

Verb informal, intransitive

  1. To go to one or more public houses.

Forms

pubs pubbing pubbed

Related

inn off-licence tavern

Verb informal, transitive

  1. to publish

Origin

Clipping of publish.

Forms

pubs pubbing pubbed

Derived

pub-sub self-pub trad-pub