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Definition of Dramshop
1. n. A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Definition of Dramshop
1. Noun. (American English) shop selling alcohol ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dramshop
1. a barroom [n -S] - See also: barroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramshop
Literary usage of Dramshop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... as well as that a landlord has the option to refuse to demise his premises
for use as a dramshop, and himself may select hie tenant, section 10, ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"dramshop Webster defines a "dramshop" as "a shop or barroom where spirits ...
In some Jurisdictions there is a distinction made between a "dramshop" and a ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1898)
"... but rather an evil that can be annihilated wimen public conscience joins
Omnipotence for its overthrow. THE dramshop OR THE REPUBLIC. MRS. ..."
4. History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: And Its People by Perl Wilbur Morgan (1911)
"... WYANDOTTE DISTRICTS—SECOND AND THIRD DISTRICTS— COURTS UNDER STATEHOOD—THE
FIRST TERM—AN EARLY DAY COURT SCENE—dramshop CASES—EARLY MEMBERS OP THE BAR—A ..."
5. The Social Evil in Chicago: A Study of Existing Conditions with by Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission (1911)
"That no license for the keeping of a saloon or dramshop within the City of Chicago
shall at any time hereafter be issued or granted to any person except as ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"1909, in receiving, storing, keeping, or delivering, as agents or otherwise of
any other person, intoxicating liquors without having licenses as dramshop ..."
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