gin joint

gin joint (plural gin joints)

1. (dated, slang) A commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, especially one which is shabby or downmarket.
   • 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca (motion picture):

     Rick Blaine: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

   • 1999 September 27, Anthony Spaeth, "Sex, Drugs and The Roll of Dice," Time (retrieved 22 March 2020):

     The heroin trade has also flourished in Ruili, along with all the ancillary businesses of bordertowns: casinos, gin joints, a glitzy bowling alley, beauty parlors and garish short-time hotels catering to bigger-spending debauchers.

   • 2017 January 10, Randy Kennedy, "'Inventing Downtown' Recalls When Artists Ran the Galleries," New York Times (retrieved 22 March 2020):

     The Tanager was founded on East Fourth Street in a former barbershop, then relocated in 1953 to 90 East 10th, a cheaper, narrow, four-story building upstairs from a gin joint.

• bar
• public house
• See also Thesaurus:pub

• jointing