sports bar

noun

: a bar catering especially to sports fans and typically containing several televisions and often sports memorabilia

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There’s a new tenant — and a similar name — coming to the building at 2301 Blake St. that used to house the iconic Blake Street Tavern, a sports bar that closed in 2023. Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2025 James Wells, operations manager, Amity Hall, New York City At Amity Hall, a sports bar in New York City’s Upper West Side that’s popular with college students, operations manager James Wells estimated one out of every 20 drinks that his staff serves are nonalcoholic beers or mocktails. Christine Romans, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025 During Super Bowl weekend, the sports bar will have deals on drinks. Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025 Twin Peaks, a sports bar and restaurant chain, began trading on Nasdaq Thursday as part of parent Fat Brands' plan to spin it off as a separate company. Richard Collings, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sports bar

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sports bar was in 1975

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“Sports bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sports%20bar. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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