clip joint

slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clip joint While not all clip joints offer refreshments, a fair number find this is a popular extra in a competitive industry. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clip joint
Noun
  • This fall, beer in hand, patrons at some of Sacramento’s finest public houses might legally wander out the front door and onto the city’s streets and plazas, moving freely between outdoor festivals and indoor hospitality.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Staying only in inns and public houses served both of these goals.
    Rachel Bernstein, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • The lawsuits filed against Rockin’ Horse accused the famed watering hole of negligence.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Industry people who are looking for new artists come to this watering hole to discover that.
    Erick Galindo, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • This speakeasy is located in the heart of Riyadh called Kimyona and designed by Azaz Architects who drew its inspiration from analog black-and-white photography.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Hume intends to keep them both, using one for whiskey tasting and the other as a speakeasy.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • For as long as hungry birds have swooped from the saloon’s leafy branches to stalk diners’ steak fries, Le Tub, the kitschy-divey national treasure on Hollywood’s Intracoastal Waterway, has delighted and polarized locals with tacky decor and huge hamburgers.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
  • That continues the light, bright look of the saloon and guest cabins.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • In terms of safety, U-Boat Worx’s track record includes 20 years in business, 60 subs in operation around the world, and more than 10,000 successful dives.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
  • With a flurry of series in development, our dive deep examined how the nation’s original production sector is outsizing its growth.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • For those who want to get their British on, there are bangers and all-day English breakfast on Sundays at a popular pub.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2025
  • Unconfirmed reports of fish up to 20 feet in length and weighing more than a ton have echoed over the generations as well, whispered to win bar bets in pubs from Pocatello to Portland.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Highlights included a barroom scene where two men bond over their chaotic girlfriends, and a comedic bit in which the rapper heroically steps in as an air traffic controller.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 18 May 2025
  • In one corner, a dark, narrow stairway — a black tube — leads up to a barroom with a sloping ceiling that is less than five feet high on the sides.
    Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 May 2025

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“Clip joint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clip%20joint. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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