Definition of "minibar" [minibar]

• A small refrigerator, as in a hotel room, stocked with liquor and nonalcoholic beverages. Also called servibar. (noun)

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• "Meanwhile, sensors in refrigerators alert maids when the minibar is running low on Coca-Cola."
• "It’s a fun, high-energy place that specializes in updated Caribbean cuisine but includes within its core a separate space, called minibar, that serves unusually inventive tapas—a cotton candy foie gras, a beet “tumbleweed”—that wouldn’t be out of place at elBulli itself."
• "The suites boast all the usual services (such as minibar, complimentary internet, anti-allergic floor and carpets), but the rooms are furnished differently, with outstanding pieces of the ultra-baroque sophistication."