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means An illicit bar or club that sold alcohol during Prohibition, typically hidden behind an unmarked door, a password, or a false front.

from A straightforward compound of 'speak' and 'easy' — patrons and bartenders were literally told to speak easy, meaning quietly, so as not to draw attention from police or nosy neighbors. The term actually predates American Prohibition, showing up in the 1800s for unlicensed drinking establishments in places like Ireland and England, before it became the defining word for Prohibition-era America's underground bars in the 1920s.