spa

[George Thompson]

Seems to me that "spa" is also frequently used for "watering hole", or a joint one goes to to drink liquor -- mixed-drink joints, mostly, is my impression, not shot-and-a-beer joints.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

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