shebeen
IPA: ʃˈɛbin
noun
- An unlicensed drinking establishment, especially in Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa.
verb
- (intransitive) To operate an unlicensed drinking establishment.
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Examples of "shebeen" in Sentences
- It also doubles up as a "shebeen," a small tavern that helps her make ends meet.
- (a member of the Youth Brigade of the Street Committee) at the shebeen was the last straw.
- Gibbons, who had been driving a brisk trade at his "shebeen," the only house of business or entertainment for miles around.
- And in Apartheid-era South Africa, a shebeen was a mostly illegally operated pub for the disenfranchised natives who were unwelcome in English or Boer drinking establishments.
- A 'shebeen' night club, catering mainly to blacks but with a fair number of white customers, is bringing the flavor of township chic to one of Johannesburg's posh white districts.
- I remark that my friend's coachman drives very fast by any house on the road; but nothing occurs till we stop at a "shebeen" to light both cigars and lamps, for the snowstorm is increasing.
- The bar, called a shebeen in the townships, is one of the places where young, black gays don't have to hide who they are, where they can talk openly, and find companionship and a safe haven in an often hostile township.
- He was prudent enough to avoid placing any sign in his window, by which his house could be known as a shebeen; for he was not ignorant that there is no class of men more learned in this species of hieroglyphics than excisemen.
- We had arrived at an illegal bar, or "shebeen," and the welcome of the men -- and soon their wives and children, until the shack was standing-room-only -- was unsurpassed even by the Rawbone-Viljoen's on the other side of town.
- The tourists then move on to the Regina Mundi Church - venue of several important political meetings during the white minority racist regime - and pop into Wandie's Place, a well-known "shebeen" or traditional tavern which serves local African fare.
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