cocktail lounge

noun

1. a public room, as in a hotel or airline terminal, where cocktails and other drinks are served.
2. a bar.

cocktail lounge

noun

1. a room in a hotel, restaurant, etc, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served

Word History and Origins

Origin of cocktail lounge¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The entrance to this moody cocktail lounge is located through a bookcase in a nondescript storefront in downtown.

From Seattle Times

“If you come here, then you will help shape the programming. We are thinking about it like a working-class cocktail lounge.”

From New York Times

“It was,” he recalls, “a different kind of weekend, instead of getting drunk in a cocktail lounge.”

From Seattle Times

Mark’s younger brother, Dan, became the cocktail lounge pianist Dan Ruskin, who for years manned the piano at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel.

From Washington Post

He later inserted political wisecracks into his patter at the Carroll Arms cocktail lounge, near the Capitol.

From New York Times