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tiki bar

tiki bar noun: a drinking establishment or restaurant with an exotic tropical theme, serving elaborate cocktails.

Noun

tiki bar (plural tiki bars)

  1. A drinking establishment or restaurant with an exotic tropical theme, serving elaborate cocktails.
    • Say you want to escape the doldrums of daily life — but you can't quite afford a trip to Hawaii. Why not to head to your local tiki bar for a sample of the South Seas? These faux-Polynesian, palm-thatched rum palaces that were all the rage in the 1960s are now making a comeback., “Let's Talk Tiki Bars: Harmless Fun Or Exploitation?”, in NPR.org
    • The dish was probably invented by Victor Bergeron, best known as the namesake founder of the Trader Vic's chains of tiki bars.2020, Dan Nosowitz, “What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?”, in J. Kenji López-Alt, editor, The Best American Food Writing 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 227

Forms of tiki bar

pluraltiki bars

Origin of tiki bar

From tiki (“carved talisman”) + bar (“drinking establishment”). From Māori tiki (“figurine”).

Questions about tiki bar

What does tiki bar mean?
Tiki bar means a drinking establishment or restaurant with an exotic tropical theme, serving elaborate cocktails.
What part of speech is tiki bar?
Tiki bar is a noun.
What is the plural of tiki bar?
The plural of tiki bar is tiki bars.

Words near tiki bar in the dictionary

  1. Tikhon
  2. tikhonenkovite
  3. Tikhonov regularization
  4. Tikhonov regularizations
  5. tiki
  6. tiki bar
  7. tiki bars
  8. tiki culture
  9. tiki restaurant
  10. tiki restaurants
  11. tiki torch

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