DCHP-3

snake room

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Hist.

See 1912 quote.

Quotations

1910
"Who turned on that gas?" he growled. "Talk 'bout the snake room in any booze joint; this's got 'em all skinned for no rest."
1912
Snake-room, a side room or a basement where saloon-keepers accommodate doped or drunken people until they recover their senses, presumably a place where they "see snakes."
2n. — Slang

a beer parlour; bar.

Quotations

1961
. . . drinking and curling are synonymous [and] many a good rink has lost a crucial Brier game or two in a hotel snake-room.