A low resort, devoted to drinking, gambling, &c.
1882. The proprietor of a New York “dive.”—Society, Nov. 11. (N.E.D.)
1883. Are the habitués of this place of the same class as those who frequent the opium-smoking dives?—H. H. Kane, ‘A Hashish-House in New York,’ Harper’s Magazine, lxvii. p. 945/1 (Nov.). (N.E.D.)
1888. A plot to entrap young women for the dives of Northern Wisconsin has been discovered.—Troy Daily Times, Feb. 7 (Farmer).
1909. The opponents of the liquor traffic have fairly forced home upon the trade the acknowledgment of its responsibility for the “dive,” the disreputable, illegal den where liquor furnishes the fit nucleus for vice of all sorts.—N.Y. Evening Post, Sept. 2.
