shot-house
n.— «When she was at the “shot-house,” she was asked when she came in what she would take, and her reply was, “A glass of whisky, if you please!”» —by William Tweedie Harry Birkett: A Man Who Helped Himself (London, England) , 1860. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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