[f. TAP sb.1 + ROOM sb.1] A room in a tavern, etc., in which liquors are kept on tap.
attrib. 1807. J. C. Cross, Ep. Peter Pindar, in Parnassian Bagatelles, 101.
| Sooner shall Methodists forget their cant! | |
| And tap-room patriots their noisy rant. |
1807. Sporting Mag., XXIX. 78. Gore was in the doorway between the tap room and the bed room.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, viii. [He] turned into a small public house, and led the way to a tap-room.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. III. 184. The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom full of soldiers smoking.
