bar regular

Familiar pub face

A bar regular is someone who frequents a particular bar often enough to be recognized by staff and other patrons.

Regulars typically have established relationships with bartenders, may have a usual drink or seat, and form part of the bar's social fabric: The bar regulars greeted him when he walked in.

The term can suggest comfortable belonging or, less charitably, habitual drinking.

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the usual · local watering hole · dive · pub · tavern · familiar · face · drink · tab · drink special · usual · cheers · closing time · last call · neighborhood · watering hole · tipsy · pint

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Opposites
frequency of patronage

bar regularfirst-timer

Newcomer to an activity

newcomer · stranger · outsider · drop-in · tourist

social belonging/insider status

bar regularoutsider

One excluded from group

stranger · new face · out-of-towner · transient · wallflower

relationship with alcohol/bar culture

bar regularteetotaler

Complete abstainer from liquor

non-drinker · abstainer · homebody

Family

bar, regular, bars, barred, barring, barman, bartender, barmaid, barroom

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