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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: From the need to speak quietly so as not to attract attention

speakeasy

 noun
     
Related topics: Drink
speak‧eas‧y plural speakeasies [countable]
DFD a place in the US in the 1920's and 1930's where you could buy alcohol illegally
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