Citations:pony keg

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English citations of pony keg

Noun: a container for beer holding 7.75 US gallons[edit]

  • 2006 February 1, Sadie Jo Smokey, “Beer lineup impressive for Super Bowl Sunday”, in The Arizona Republic[1], retrieved 12 November 2007:
    Depending on the crowd, a keg or pony keg may be the way to go. [] For fewer than 20 guests, consider a pony keg, which serves 80 drinks.

Noun: a drive-through liquor store[edit]

  • 1984 December, Laura Pulfer, “Guilt by Association”, in Cincinnati, volume 18, number 3, page 6:
    I satisfy my junk food jones at a pony keg nearby where nobody asks questions and nobody sneers.
  • 1987 July, Bonnie Gordon, “Chefs: Real Men Eat Truffles?”, in Cincinnati, volume 20, number 10, page 18:
    The bakery Bear purchased at 2342 Robertson Avenue—behind the Sharpsburg Public School and next door to a typical Cincinnati pony keg—is a Norwood landmark.
  • 2000 February, Steve Kissing, “Running from the Devil”, in Cincinnati, volume 33, number 5, page 55:
    Soon their cage was more crowded than the candy line at the neighborhood pony keg minutes after school let out.
  • 2012, Ruth Ann Busald, Nancy Hanseman, Janet Meckstroth-Blank, Madisonville, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
    Walter Beckman poses in front of Betts Service Station while his butter and egg truck fills up at the pump around 1926. The station was at the triangle corner of Madison, Plainville, and Camargo Roads. This same building became a “pony keg,” a small drive-through convenience store, before it was torn down.
  • 2015, Steven Carl Tracy, Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page xiv:
    This man who dug graves for eight hours a day, then went to work pumping gas at night, and then worked the cash register at a pony keg on weekends.