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chock-house en · NOUN

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1. A juke joint that sold chock, a highly potent homemade beer known commonly sold in logging and turpentine camps.
   • In the 'chock-houses' where a crude form of alcohol cost a matter of cents, pianists hit the keys in a rough-and-ready combination of ragtime and blues: barrelhouse, as it was called, after the rudest of joints where barrels supported a plank for the bar. 2008, Jeff Place, Classic Piano Blues, page 4:
   • In 1915 he performed on Dallas radio station WWR, and continued to play for tips at various social gathering places, including chock-houses (homes or stores where home-brewed alcohol was served) and juke joints in Dallas. 2020, boppinbob, “Whistlin' Alex Moore born 22 November 1899”, in From the Vaults:
   • When Jefferson did play juke joints or chock houses he would sometimes have a fiddler to accompany him, often Lorenzo Ross. 2012, Jonathan S. Lower, THE AMERICAN BLUES: MEN, MYTHS, AND MOTIFS, page 42:

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