tavernize

English

Etymology

tavern +‎ -ize

Verb

tavernize (third-person singular simple present tavernizes, present participle tavernizing, simple past and past participle tavernized)

1. (intransitive) To frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.
   • 1867, James Grant Wilson, Mr. Secretary Pepys: With Extracts from His Diary, page 98:

     Samuel certainly was no saint, and seems to have been a perfect giant in tavernizing and junketing generally […]

2. (transitive) To turn into a tavern, or adapt to the needs of taverns.
   • 2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History:

     In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom. Taverns would come to serve the resistance more than they served the Crown […]