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boozorium en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of booze + emporium.

Meanings

1. (historical, slang) A bar or a place where alcohol is sold.
   • The Bronfmans were playing a game rough enough to have led to the murder, never solved, of Sam and Harry’s brother-in-law, Paul Matoff, who was killed by a blast from a 12gauge shotgun as he sat in the family’s boozorium in Bienfait counting the money he had just collected from an American bootlegger. 2010, Daniel Okrent, “Last Call The Rise And Fall”, in All About History:
   • [...] he said that some of the "outfit" in the House comprised a "slanderbund" which concocted slanders and sent them from one "boozorium" to another. 1914, Unattributed, “THE MANNERS OF THE MINISTER OF MILITIA.”, in Peterborough Examiner 1858 01 05 to 1927 06 29, page 8:
   • Say! Is this a lunatic asylum, or only a boozorium? 1910, Unattributed, chapter 1, in New Nick Carter Weekly #714, page 13:
   • The more we try to dope out these Spanish names for things out here the more we wish the English or the Harps had settled California. Even French would be better, for we know a few of those, like "cafe" for boozorium [...] 1915, Willard Connely, “Through Panama to Frisco”, in Boston American, page 4:
   • By the time Knowles and his group got back to the boozorium, Harry Bronfman had arrived in Gainsborough to deal with the situation. 1920, Peter C. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, page 96:
   • Much of the best stock in the boozorium was missing, and the bartender telephoned to police headquarters that Mrs. Carrie Nation was in town. 1901, Unattributed, “Caught His Pal”, in The Duluth Evening Herald:

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