ruin pub
ruin pub noun: a bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
Noun
ruin pub (plural ruin pubs)
- A bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
- Each ruin pub is unique, but they all share certain similarities. The main ingredient is usually an abandoned building, preferably with a vacant lot nearby to hold picnic tables and a few beer taps.2011 August 15, Mark Baker, “The 'ruin pubs' of Budapest's seventh district”, in BBC
- “Let's go to Corvinteto,” she said, mentioning the ruin pub in the old abandoned department store near her apartment. “I need a drink.”2013, Kenneth Rosenberg, chapter 32, in Memoirs of a Starving Artist: An Itinerant Writer's Journey through an Unconventional Life, →ISBN, page 295
- Synonyms:
- ruin bar
Synonyms of ruin pub
- ruin bar
Forms of ruin pub
| plural | ruin pubs |
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Origin of ruin pub
Calque of Hungarian romkocsma.
Questions about ruin pub
- What does ruin pub mean?
- Ruin pub means a bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
- What part of speech is ruin pub?
- Ruin pub is a noun.
- What is the plural of ruin pub?
- The plural of ruin pub is ruin pubs.
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