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Look up: Speakeasy

  1. speakeasy
    [n] - (during prohibition) an illegal barroom
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. speakeasy
    Bar that illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period (1920-33) in the USA. The term is probably derived from the need to speak quickly or quietly to the doorkeeper in order to...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. Speakeasy
    Simple array-oriented language with numerical integration and differentiation, graphical output, aimed at statistical analysis. ['Speakeasy', S. Cohen, SIGPLAN Notices 9(4), (Apr 1974)]. ['Speakeasy-3 Reference Manual', S. Cohen et al. 1976].
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  4. speakeasy
    noun (during prohibition) an illegal barroom
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Speakeasy
    A `speakeasy` was an establishment that was generally used for selling and drinking alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition (1920-1933, longer in some states), when the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol was illegal. The term comes from a patron's manner of ordering alcohol without raising suspicion — a bartender would tell a patron to be quiet and `speak easy`. Speakeasies became m...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy

  6. SpeakEasy
    `SpeakEasy` was a United States military project to use software defined radio technology to make it possible to communicate with over 10 different types of military radios from a single system. Category:Military radio systems
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeakEasy


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