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snake room
noun
a bar CANADA- 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.” — John Sandilands, Western Canadian Dictionary, p. 42/1, 1912
- Drinking and curling are synonymous and many a good rink has lost a crucial Brier game or two in a hotel snake-room. — Maclean’s, p. 62/1, 7 January 1961
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