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roadhouse

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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road·house /ˈrəʊdhaʊs $ ˈroʊd-/ noun [countable]  American EnglishDFDL a restaurant or bar on a main road outside a city 〔城外公路边的〕路旁餐馆,路旁酒吧
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roadhouseOn the way we pulled up shah at a roadhouse on Highway 99.He suggested they went out to dinner on the Saturday at a reputedly excellent roadhouse.In the years after, Charlie opened his roadhouse and also be-came the biggest beer distributor in Greene and Ulster counties.The two actually meet when the up-and-coming star comes to Houston for a gig at a slightly sleazy roadhouse.Aborigines frequent the roadhouse and are gawked at by foreign travelers as if they were walking souvenirs.The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness.In back of the roadhouse were trailers and tents and a few rickety motel-style rooms.Basically my father who I believe you knew in the Sixties ... he organised lots of the roadhouse shows?
road·house nounChineseSyllable
restaurant on a bar a road outside a Corpus or main


roadhouse
roadhouse /ˈrəʊdhaʊs $ ˈroʊd-/ noun [countable]
American English a restaurant or bar on a main road outside a city


road·houseBrE /ˈrəʊdhaʊs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈroʊdhaʊs/ 🔊 noun (old-fashioned, NAmE) a restaurant or bar on a main road in the country (郊外公路干线上的)路边旅馆,路边餐馆