tavernize

verb — 2 senses

tavernize

verb

Etymology From tavern + -ize.

1

To frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.

  • Samuel certainly was no saint, and seems to have been a perfect giant in tavernizing and junketing generally […]1867, James Grant Wilson, Mr. Secretary Pepys: With Extracts from His Diary, page 98:
2

To turn into a tavern, or adapt to the needs of taverns.

  • In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom. Taverns would come to serve the resistance more than they served the Crown […]2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History:

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