nonbar

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ bar.

Noun

nonbar (plural nonbars)

  1. A location that is not a bar (drinking establishment).
    • 2002, Kelly Hankin, The Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar, page 117:
      Since Stonewall and second-wave feminism, nonbar space for lesbians within the public sphere has dramatically increased.
    • 2010, Jeffery T. Walker, Sean Maddan, Criminology and Criminal Justice, page 89:
      Although this variable was not met by most of the establishments, enough other variables (and subjective observations) were met to confidently classify these establishments as bars rather than nonbars.

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