Definition of "grogshop" [grog•shop]

• A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk. (noun)

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• "By similar reasoning a superannuated dairymaid with a grogshop is a very different person to the "pretty girl milking her cow" -- sovereign lady of her presence, but of no groggery beside."
• "Frances Willard herself had adopted the imagery, asserting that the grogshop is the Negro’s center of power."
• "In the _New York Voice_ of October 23, 1890, after a tour in the South, where she was told all these things by the "best white people," she said: "The grogshop is the Negro's center of power."