{
 "id": "wing-night",
 "names": {
  "name": "wing night",
  "aliases": [
   "Wing Wednesday",
   "wing special",
   "25-cent wings"
  ],
  "said": "Named after the night, not the wing: Wing Wednesday, Thirsty Thursday with wings attached."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "W",
  "part_of_speech": "noun"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "wing + night, on the pattern of ladies' night, trivia night, open-mic night — a weekday plus the thing that fills it",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "Alliteration decides the branding: Wing Wednesday is the name that repeats, because the W's match. *Inference —* the alliteration explains the name, not the practice; the practice sits on whichever night the bar is otherwise empty.",
  "tier": "inference"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A weekly price special on wings, usually sold by the piece and usually paired with a drink minimum. The deal is the draw; the pitcher is the margin.",
  "how": "Which night? No single one owns it. Buffalo Wing Guide, which keeps a running list of western New York specials, files them under Monday through Sunday plus Every Day — every weekday carries some. A bar-marketing write-up describes the pull the other way round, saying wing night is what \"makes a bar busy on Monday or Tuesday night\". So the answer is that wing night lands where the week is slow, and the name it gets depends on which letter it can rhyme with.",
  "today": "Buffalo Wing Guide's 2026 list warns that \"all wing specials and pricing are subject to change. Please call bar or restaurant to verify accuracy\" — which is the state of every posted wing price after three years of wing costs moving."
 },
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  {
   "to": "the-pitcher",
   "as": "What the special is really selling; the wings are priced to move it.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-basket",
   "as": "The portion a wing night is counted in.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-price-of-a-wing",
   "as": "Why a per-piece special is a harder promise some years than others.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-wild-wings",
   "as": "Ran the weekly special at national scale and made the day part of the brand.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "super-bowl-sunday",
   "as": "The one wing night nobody has to advertise.",
   "rel": "event"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials",
  "s:web-gourmet-marketing-wing-night",
  "s:wp-buffalo-wild-wings"
 ],
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials"
  },
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   "etymology": {
    "tier": "inference"
   },
   "text.what": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   },
   "text.how": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "type": "term",
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A weekly price special on wings, usually sold by the piece and usually paired with a drink minimum. The deal is the draw; the pitcher is the margin.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "to": "the-pitcher",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the pitcher",
   "as": "What the special is really selling; the wings are priced to move it.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-basket",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the wing basket",
   "as": "The portion a wing night is counted in.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-price-of-a-wing",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The price of a wing",
   "as": "Why a per-piece special is a harder promise some years than others.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-wild-wings",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Buffalo Wild Wings",
   "as": "Ran the weekly special at national scale and made the day part of the brand.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "super-bowl-sunday",
   "type": "event",
   "name": "Super Bowl Sunday",
   "as": "The one wing night nobody has to advertise.",
   "rel": "event"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Buffalo/WNY Daily Chicken Wing Specials & Deals",
   "publisher": "Buffalo Wing Guide, LLC",
   "url": "https://www.buffalowingguide.com/wny-weekly-chicken-wing-specials",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "listings filterable by Monday through Sunday and Every Day"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-gourmet-marketing-wing-night",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "What is Your Bar's Wing Night? Using Food for Bar Marketing",
   "publisher": "Gourmet Marketing",
   "url": "https://www.gourmetmarketing.net/blog/what-is-your-bars-wing-night-using-food-for-bar-marketing",
   "year": 2024,
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "last updated 11 April 2024"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-buffalo-wild-wings",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Buffalo Wild Wings",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Wild_Wings",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  }
 ],
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   "tier": "tradition"
  },
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   "tier": "cited",
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  },
  "text.today": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-buffalo-wing-guide-specials"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "inference"
  }
 },
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   "from": "honey-bbq-sauce",
   "type": "sauce",
   "name": "Honey barbecue sauce",
   "as": "The sauce that lets a table order one round for people who disagree about heat.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-pitcher",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the pitcher",
   "as": "The night the pitcher price and the wing price are set against each other.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-basket",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the wing basket",
   "as": "The night the basket gets priced by the piece and the room fills.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
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   "from": "blondies-sports-bar",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Blondies Sports",
   "as": "Runs one, on Mondays, all you can eat — and the offer has come and gone.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-cafe",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "The Wing Cafe & Tap House",
   "as": "Karaoke, trivia, music bingo and poker nights: the weekday calendar a wing bar runs on.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "neon-chicken",
   "type": "art",
   "name": "Neon chicken",
   "as": "The night the lit sign is selling; neon and the midweek special keep the same hours.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-price-of-a-wing",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The price of a wing",
   "as": "What a bar does when the cut is cheap, and stops doing when it is not.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ]
}