Question of the Day #400

"Garth Brooks Announces 2019 Dive Bar Tour"
From the headline of this article at Wide Open Country.

上記の文で、dive barの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "dive bar" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


〈話〉怪しげなバー、場末の酒場、安酒場

ただし、下記英語の定義にあるように、「近所の居心地のいいバー等」もdive barといいます。
また、diveだけでもいいのですが、この場合はバーやバブのみならず、クラブ等も含まれます。

Answer

According to The Urban Dictionary:

A well-worn, unglamorous bar, often serving a cheap, simple selection of drinks to a regular clientele. The term can describe anything from a comfortable-but-basic neighborhood pub to the nastiest swill-slinging hole.

Etymology/語源

によると、

米英語の「怪しげなバー」の意味は、1871年に初めて記録されている。意味は、おそらくこの手の多くの店は地下にあったからで、実際にまた比喩的に「飛び込む」感じがあったからではないでしょうか。

According to Online Etymology Dictionary:

Colloquial sense of "disreputable place of resort for drinking and vice" is  recorded in American English by 1871, perhaps because they typically were in basements, and going into one was both a literal and figurative "diving."

Examples

• The place is a real dive, but the drinks are cheap and the food's great.
• You don't need to dress up; we're just going to the dive bar down the street.
• I tried to take my date somewhere nice, and that's when I realized I only know dive bars.
• We've played in all the little pubs and dives around Liverpool.