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piano bar

piano bar noun: a type of lounge or bar featuring live piano music as a form of entertainment.

Noun

piano bar (plural piano bars)

  1. A type of lounge or bar featuring live piano music as a form of entertainment.
    • "Where'd you learn to play the piano?" the drunk asks. "I got two degrees," the piano player says. "One in musical education." I go to a coin telephone and call a friend in New York. "Where are you?" he says. "In a piano bar in Encino," I say.1968, Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, page 224
    • DOUG. Yeah, well this ain't a piano bar.
      BETTY. (indicating piano) Then what is that over there?
      DOUG. This is a bar with a piano. That's not the same thing as a piano bar, believe me.1987, Barbara Beery et al., The Bar Off Melrose: A New Comedy, page 15

Forms of piano bar

pluralpiano bars

Questions about piano bar

What does piano bar mean?
Piano bar means a type of lounge or bar featuring live piano music as a form of entertainment.
What part of speech is piano bar?
Piano bar is a noun.
What is the plural of piano bar?
The plural of piano bar is piano bars.

Words near piano bar in the dictionary

  1. pianny-forties
  2. pianny-forty
  3. piano
  4. piano accordion
  5. piano accordions
  6. piano bar
  7. piano bars
  8. piano bench
  9. piano benches
  10. piano fingers
  11. piano four hands

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