chock-house
chock-house noun: a juke joint that sold chock, a highly potent homemade beer known commonly sold in logging and turpentine camps.
Noun
chock-house (plural chock-houses)
- A juke joint that sold chock, a highly potent homemade beer known commonly sold in logging and turpentine camps.
- In the 'chock-houses' where a crude form of alcohol cost a matter of cents, pianists hit the keys in a rough-and-ready combination of ragtime and blues: barrelhouse, as it was called, after the rudest of joints where barrels supported a plank for the bar.2008, Jeff Place, Classic Piano Blues, page 4
- When Jefferson did play juke joints or chock houses he would sometimes have a fiddler to accompany him, often Lorenzo Ross.2012, Jonathan S. Lower, THE AMERICAN BLUES: MEN, MYTHS, AND MOTIFS, page 42
Forms of chock-house
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Questions about chock-house
- What does chock-house mean?
- Chock-house means a juke joint that sold chock, a highly potent homemade beer known commonly sold in logging and turpentine camps.
- What part of speech is chock-house?
- Chock-house is a noun.
- What is the plural of chock-house?
- The plural of chock-house is chock-houses.
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