Definitions
an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling
Word origin
From road + house.
Used in a sentence
“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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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Highway inn”9 letters
02“Highway tavern”9 letters
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