dry county
No booze jurisdiction
A dry county is a county in the United States where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited or severely restricted by local law.
The term reflects America's patchwork of alcohol regulations following Prohibition, with dry counties concentrated in the South and rural areas: We had to drive to the next county to buy beer—this one's dry.
The opposite is a wet county.
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- alcohol banLegal restriction on liquor
- liquorDistilled alcoholic drink
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- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
- sobrietysober, sobriety, abstinence, abstinent, abstainer
- vice lawssodomy laws, obscenity laws, blue laws, adultery laws, indecency laws
- prohibitionsban, forbid, prohibition, forbidden, prohibit