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smokeasy en · NOUN

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Etymology

Blend of smoke + speakeasy.

Meanings

1. An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.
   • My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.” 1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14:

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