smokeasy

English

Etymology

Blend of smoke +‎ speakeasy

Noun

smokeasy (plural smokeasies)

  1. An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.
    • 1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today‎, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14:
      My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”

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