BYOB
English
Noun
BYOB
- (also attributive) Initialism of Bring your own bottle (or booze, or beer or beverage).
- Synonym: BYO
- Coordinate terms: cash bar, full bar, fully licensed, open bar
- 2005, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Bible: The Thoroughly Indispensable Guide to Negotiating Life without Wheat, Holt Paperbacks (→ISBN)
- Whether you choose a modest family restaurant, the little café around the corner, the new BYOB everybody's talking about, or even the local pizza palace, […]
- 2011, Charles Farley, Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Univ. Press of Mississippi (→ISBN), page 117:
- It is a BYOB affair tonight, but ice, paper cups, and mixers are for sale. As the room fills, the lines lengthen.
- (US, Utah) Initialism of Bring your own bible.
Usage notes
Used both as an adjective, to describe a restaurant which allows diners to bring their own alcohol (particularly if the restaurant itself is not licensed to sell alcohol), as a noun to refer to such a restaurant, and as an admonition in social invitations that guests should in fact bring beverages, as none will be provided by the host (similar to RSVP).
See also
- corkage
Anagrams
- B-boy, b-boy