shebeen

There was a bitter taste in his mouth, and a pain in his ear where somebody'd hit him during a shebeen brawl the night before.

Shebeen or sheebeen; an unlicensed public-house or alehouse where spirits are sold on the sly.

On reaching St. John's he would go to a shebeen that he knew, in a narrow and secluded back street, and there rent a room.

In this lane at the time to which we allude the widow Mulready kept the shebeen shop, of which mention has before been made.