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speakeasys

speakeasys is the plural of speakeasy.

Meaning of speakeasy

Noun

speakeasy (plural speakeasies or speakeasys)

  1. (historical) An illegal saloon or tavern, especially one operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s.
    • Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90
    1. (broadly, historical) In modern times, a legal bar in the style of a speakeasy, i.e. one that is hidden away and has a quiet atmosphere.

Questions about speakeasys

What is speakeasys the plural of?
Speakeasys is the plural of speakeasy.

Words near speakeasys in the dictionary

  1. speakableness
  2. speake
  3. speakeasies
  4. speakeasy
  5. speakeasylike
  6. speakeasys
  7. speaked
  8. speakee
  9. speakees
  10. speakeing
  11. speaker

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