gin joint
Prohibition-era watering hole
A gin joint is a seedy bar or nightclub, especially one associated with the Prohibition era when alcohol was sold illegally.
The term evokes smoky rooms, jazz music, and questionable clientele.
It's most familiar from *Casablanca*: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Now used nostalgically or humorously for any disreputable drinking establishment.
Rundown, cheap drinking spot
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- roadhouseWayside drinking establishment
- watering holePlace for drinks
- taproomBar serving draft beer
honky-tonk · nightspot · after-hours club · back room · bar counter · bartender · patrons · regulars
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- raidsSudden armed attacks
- G-menFBI agents, informally
rum-running · 18th Amendment · repeal · smuggling · illicit · clandestine · password · backdoor
Improvisational American music genre
- flapperTwenties unconventional young woman
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- roaring twentiesProsperous 1920s period
- ragtimeSyncopated piano genre
Gatsby · phonograph · cigarette smoke · piano player · torch singer · fedora · pinstripe · gangster
Mixed alcoholic beverage
- martiniGin-vermouth cocktail
- tonicInvigorating medicinal drink
- highballSpirit lengthened with mixer
- sidecarMotorcycle's passenger pod
Tom Collins · neat · on the rocks · jigger · shot glass · bootleg whiskey · rotgut · mixed drink
dive bar
Rundown, cheap drinking spot
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- roadhouseWayside drinking establishment
- watering holePlace for drinks
taproom · honky-tonk · nightspot · after-hours club · back room · bar counter · bartender · patrons · regulars · bouncer
speakeasy
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- raidsSudden armed attacks
G-men · rum-running · 18th Amendment · repeal · smuggling · illicit · clandestine · password · backdoor · blind pig
jazz
Improvisational American music genre
- flapperTwenties unconventional young woman
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
- roaring twentiesProsperous 1920s period
Gatsby · ragtime · phonograph · cigarette smoke · piano player · torch singer · fedora · pinstripe · gangster · moll
cocktail
Mixed alcoholic beverage
sidecar · Tom Collins · neat · on the rocks · jigger · shot glass · bootleg whiskey · rotgut · mixed drink · flask
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- venuesarena, auditorium, stadium, performing arts center, theater
- noir slanggumshoe, femme fatale, private eye, shamus, peeper
- speakeasysecret bar, hidden door, password, bootleg liquor, Prohibition
- speakeasiesspeakeasy, blind pig, speak, secret bar, underground bar
- vice densbrothel, opium den, speakeasy, gambling den, crack house
gin jointchurch
Place of Christian worship
temple · house of worship · licensed premises · soda fountain · tea room
gin jointgentleman's club
Private social organization for men
country club · champagne bar · wine bar · exclusive club · champagne lounge
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