bar crawl

noun

plural bar crawls
: the visiting of various bars in succession especially as a social activity : pub crawl
A bar crawl is simply going from one drinking spot to the next, but the fun part is who you do it with.Tyler Marie Lawrence

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Instead, locals mainly subsist on pintxos — the quicker, punchier Basque equivalent to Spanish tapas — which are downed as part of an everlasting bar crawl. Colin Wrenn, The Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2025 The final stop on the Celestial Park bar crawl: CelesTiki. Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2025 Cities across the country will celebrate with parades of green adornment, Irish foods and thematic bar crawls. Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025 Special events fill the calendar to give visitors more to do than just a bar crawl along Duval Street. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bar crawl

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bar crawl was in 1959

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“Bar crawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bar%20crawl. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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