Meaning of Roadhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.
   US
2. A receiving house.
3. A truck stop located in a remote area, with basic accommodation facilities.
   Australia

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Examples

“Near-synonym: coaching inn (often synonymous, historically)”

“The pub was a classic 1930s 'roadhouse'. To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have⟳ been an opium den in Victorian London.”

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