Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) a nightclub.

1933		Morn. Call (Allentown, PA) 9 Mar. 11/3: Such raffish resorts as the gay ‘niteries’ of Broadway.
1939		P.E. Miller Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n.p.: nitery : a night-club.
1943		D. Vining A Gay Diary (1996) 19 Dec. 376: The entertainment is not as varied as in New York, there being less vaudeville and nitery talent to call upon.
1946		J.E. Dadswell Hey, Sucker 71: Chicago’s [...] jookeries, Niteries, basement bazaars, pinball centers and other amusements.
1951		Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 549: ‘Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)’ became a sort of nitery spending theme song.
1964		J. Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane Act II: We toured the nighteries in the motor.
1983		E. Whitehead Patricks: Hockey’s Royal Family 216: A well known New York Rangers hockey star [...] was observed during the wee hours in a popular niterie.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 299: When a mate decides to invest in this Kings Cross nitery he books the Thunderbirds.
1999		Indep. Rev. 11 Sept. 20: Can you appreciate this [...] listening to speed garage in some murky niterie?
2001		Osgerby & Gough-Yates Action TV 38: The episode ‘The Gadget Lovers’, for example, opens characteristically with The Saint relaxing in a plush Berlin niterie — the ‘Kitten Club’.