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duty watch bar
 n.— «For members of the British Royal Navy on the two warships at the pier, it became something more than just a bar last week. “It’s the ’duty watch bar,’ ” Mark Smith, 41, a petty officer sitting in Montero’s on Sunday, said with a thick accent that was part British and part Rolling Rock. “It’s an expression. The nearest pub to the ship is the duty watch bar.”» —“The Fleet’s In: In the Harbor, and the Bar” by Michael Wilson New York Times July 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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