smokeasy
English
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editsmokeasy (plural smokeasies)
- An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.
- 1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today[1], Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14:
- 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.”