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pub
1[ puhb ]
noun
- a bar or tavern.
pub.
2abbreviation for
- public.
- publication.
- published.
- publisher.
- publishing.
pub
1/ pʌb /
noun
- Formal namepublic house a building with a bar and one or more public rooms licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drink, often also providing light meals
- a hotel
verb
- informal.intr to visit a pub or pubs (esp in the phrase go pubbing )
pub.
2abbreviation for
- public
- publication
- published
- publisher
- publishing
Word History and Origins
Origin of pub1
Example Sentences
Belfast Crown Court was told that Tara Wright had been at a pub in Ballygowan, County Down, with friends and was four times over the legal alcohol limit for driving.
A Sunday lunch at the pub or a special celebration, you were always made welcome.
Edward Smith, also known as Edward Stockings, is suspected of shooting his wife, Lisa Smith, in the car park of the Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt, Kent, on 14 February.
They would dig up electrical connections and divert electricity to empty houses, pubs, shops and nightclubs.
A dozen people have been injured in a shooting at a Toronto pub and three suspects are still at large, police in the Canadian city say.
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