(especially in Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa) an unlicensed establishment or private house selling alcoholic liquor and typically regarded as slightly disreputable (尤指爱尔兰、苏格兰及南非的)无执照小酒店 ■(in South Africa) an informal licensed drinking place in a township (南非)城镇有执照的非正式小酒馆
语源
late 18th cent.: from Anglo-Irish síbín, from sébe 'mugful'