hook shop
hook shop
A brothel or house of prostitution. Though obviously in decline in recent years, hook shops can still be found in the seedier parts of the city. Please don't tell me that the media got a picture of the senator leaving a hook shop over the weekend. A: "I've heard rumblings that Tom's new girlfriend used to work at a hook shop." B: "Whoa! Does he know that?"
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hook shop
n. a brothel. (see also
hooker.)
There is a secret hook shop over on Maple Street. McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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