roadhouse
n.
small tavern or night club located near a major highway
Roadhouse
Roadhouse can refer to a type of building or business, principally in the USA, Canada and Australia: A local
inn or
restaurant, the "roadhouse" or "road house" commonly refers to an establishment that serves meals, especially in the evenings, and has a bar serving beer or hard liquor, and which features music and dancing for entertainment. Most roadhouses are located along highways or roads in rural areas or on the outskirts of towns. Early roadhouses provided lodging for travellers, but, with the advent of motels in the early 20th century, few now have rooms available. Roadhouses have a slightly disreputable image similar to
honkytonks.American film: The roadhouse is portrayed in movies including
The Wild One and
Easy Rider.In
Australia, a roadhouse is a
service station in a rural area specifically aimed to service passing traffic on a major intercity route. A roadhouse sells fuel and provides maintenance and repairs for cars, but also has an attached "restaurant" (more like a café) serving hot food to travellers. There is usually space to park
semi-trailer trucks and buses, as well as cars. In remote areas such as the
Nullarbor Plain, a roadhouse also offers
motel-style accommodation and camping facilities.In
Alaska and the
Yukon, starting in the
1890s [1], roadhouses were checkpoints where dog drivers (
mushers, or
dog sledders); horse-driven
sleds; and people on
snowshoes,
skis, or walking; would stop overnight for shelter and a hot meal. Remains of a roadhouse can be seen today south of
Carmacks, Yukon along the
Klondike Highway. (See also
Black Rapids Roadhouse)
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roadhouse
Noun
1. an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling
(hypernym) hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge
roadhouse
Synonyms and related words:
amusement park, ballroom, boardinghouse, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, dorm, dormitory, doss house, entertainment industry, fleabag, flophouse, fun-fair, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, juke joint, lodge, lodging house, night spot, nightclub, nitery, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, resort, rooming house, show biz, show business, tavern, theater
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ROADHOUSE
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