Definition of Roadhouse

1. Noun. An inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling.

Generic synonyms: Auberge, Hostel, Hostelry, Inn, Lodge

Definition of Roadhouse

1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roadhouse

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roadhouse

roadblocked
roadblocking
roadblocks
roadbook
roadcraft
roadcut
roadcuts
roaded
roadeo
roadeos
roadgoing
roadhog
roadhogs
roadholding
roadholdings
roadhouse (current term)
roadhouses
roadie
roadies
roading
roadings
roadish
roadkill
roadkilled
roadkills
roadless
roadlessness
roadlike
roadmaker
roadmakers

Literary usage of Roadhouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Delta Junction to Fairbanks Big Delta State Historical Park Rika's roadhouse, at Mile 275, is one of the many roadhouses that lined the trail from Valdez to ..."

2. My Ship: And Other Verses by Edmund Stanislaus Leamy (1917)
"... The roadhouse INTO an Inn beside the Old Post Road Beloved by me in days of headlong youth, When life was sweet and laughter lightly flowed, ..."

3. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"roadhouse: I wish our cattle in California were as free from tuberculosis as the ... roadhouse : Usually in California when we test that kind of stock, ..."

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