The word "speakeasy" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an illicit bar or nightclub that was popular during the Prohibition era in the United States. Example: "They found a hidden speakeasy behind a false wall in the old bookstore." Alternatives include "hidden bar" or "underground club."
Open daily 3pm-2am Sassafras has all of the cosy 1920's charm of a prohibition-era speakeasy, with none of the pretence of Franklin Mortgage or Hop Sing (since the 21st amendment removed the need for such).
Though the cocktails are clever, delicious and prepared and served with panache and pomp, the true genius of Hop Sing is the theatre: It's a faux speakeasy in Chinatown, with an unmarked door whose bell must be rung.
In this space once a Dominican speakeasy, now home to a shifting group of squatters they shoot scenes set in a 1917 opium den.
The influx of blacks from the south during the first Great Migration coincided with the speakeasy culture of the Prohibition era, and helped inspire the pulsating rhythm of life in the Hill District.These speakeasies (many of them run by Harris's brother Woogie) provided the setting for many of Harris's celebrity shots.
A Prohibition-style speakeasy culture has sprung up in response.
In the early 1990s, Barber started performing at the Green Mill, a jazz club in a former Chicago speakeasy, and she began expanding her horizons, adding unusual selections, from 11th-century Gregorian chants to Santana and Joni Mitchell.
Major supporters of Prohibition gradually became disenchanted with it, citing the increase in criminal liquor production and sale, the development of the speakeasy, and increased restriction on individual freedom as its results.
The couple began to publish Reader's Digest by themselves, marketing it by direct mail from a basement underneath a Greenwich Village speakeasy.
Dill Pickle Club, also spelled Dil Pickle Club, bohemian club, cabaret, and (from the mid-1920s) speakeasy in Chicago that operated from about 1914 to about 1933 (though sources vary).
I was at school in London and one of his gigs was at a club called the Speakeasy club on Great Marlborough Street.
A monumental bar wraps around a corner of the room, giving it the feel of some Prohibition-era speakeasy, albeit one filled with suity men slamming small balls at each other.
