Word.ws English Dictionary

pub-goer

pub-goer is the alternative form of pubgoer.

Meaning of pubgoer

Noun

pubgoer (plural pubgoers)

  1. One who visits a public house.
    • Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    pubber, punter

Forms of pub-goer

pluralpub-goers

Origin of pub-goer

From pub + goer.

Questions about pub-goer

What is pub-goer the alternative form of?
Pub-goer is the alternative form of pubgoer.

Words near pub-goer in the dictionary

  1. pub tests
  2. pub-crawl
  3. pub-crawled
  4. pub-crawling
  5. pub-crawls
  6. pub-goer
  7. pub-goers
  8. pub-sub
  9. pub.
  10. Pub. L.
  11. pubalgia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pub-goer (page history and authors); pubgoer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pub-goer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pub-goer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.