Pub

noun
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a bar or tavern.
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publishing.
noun
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(mainly Brit) Formal name public house. a building with a bar and one or more public rooms licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drink, often also providing light meals
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(Austral & NZ) a hotel
verb pubs, pubbing, pubbed
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(intransitive) (informal) to visit a pub or pubs (esp in the phrase go pubbing)
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publication
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1. PUBlishing. A 1972 text-formatting language for TOPS-10, with syntax based on SAIL. Influenced TeX and Scribe. [“PUB: The Document Compiler”, Larry Tesler, Stanford AI Proj Op Note, Sept 1972].
2. /pub, the top-level, publicly accessible directory on most anonymous FTP archives. This is usually where the interesting files are. See pubic directory.
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