tavern regular

Familiar pub face

A tavern regular is someone who frequents a particular bar or pub so often they've become a familiar fixture—known by name to the staff, claiming the same stool, perhaps with a usual drink poured before they ask.

The tavern regulars gathered for their nightly card game.

The term carries a whiff of old-fashioned local drinking culture, neighborhood joints where everybody knows your name.

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bartender · pint · tab · rounds · haunt · watering hole · ale · pub · dive bar · cheers · tippler · boozer · familiar face · old timer · corner seat · bar stool · last call · happy hour

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Opposites
frequency of patronage

tavern regularfirst-timer

Newcomer to an activity

newcomer · tourist · passerby · drop-in

social belonging/insider status

tavern regularstranger

Person not yet known

outsider · out-of-towner · transient · new face · interloper

lifestyle/drinking habits

tavern regularteetotaler

Complete abstainer from liquor

abstainer · non-drinker · homebody · temperance advocate · prohibitionist

Family

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Familiarity
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