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snake room 
1 n. Hist. See 1912 quote.
- 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."
2 n. Slang a beer parlour; bar.
See also: beer parlo(u)r
- 1961 . . . drinking and curling are synonymous [and] many a good rink has lost a crucial Brier game or two in a hotel snake-room.
- 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."