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bloodhouse

bloodhouse noun: a building where violent, bloody brawls are common.

Noun

bloodhouse (plural bloodhouses)

  1. A building where violent, bloody brawls are common.
    • ‘[…]Not,’ she elaborated with ponderous wistfulness, ‘that I don’t enjoy an occasional slumming expedition to the bloodhouses. Graham won’t use a bar that isn’t full of men in grubby singlets;[…]’1961, George Turner, A Stranger and Afraid, London: Cassell, page 40
    • From the bloodhouses of my youth, vagrant hotels, I see your face / Dead girl (dear Jan!) in smoke-filled rooms—glass-littered slimy floors.1972, Geoffrey Lehmann, Conversation with a Rider, Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, page 43

Examples of bloodhouse in a sentence

  • There are still a few bloodhouses, as the rowdier institutions are called, patronized exclusively by men;1985, Tony Allan, editor, Australia, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 131:
  • The conditions and service offered varied: some were ‘bloodhouses’; others, such as that at Parramatta owned by James Larra, provided fine food, good drink and warm hospitality to their customers.1990, Douglass Baglin, Yvonne Austin, The Great Aussie Pub Crawl, Child & Associates, →ISBN, page 19:
  • […]negative environmental factors that make some establishments bloodhouses year after year and many more establishments violent on a less predictable basis.1992, Journal of Drug Issues, page 682:
  • Compared to those bloodhouses, the El Rocco was a beacon of sophistication.2007, Michael Caulfield, The Vietnam Years: From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

Forms of bloodhouse

pluralbloodhouses

Origin of bloodhouse

From blood + house.

Questions about bloodhouse

What does bloodhouse mean?
Bloodhouse means a building where violent, bloody brawls are common.
How do you use bloodhouse in a sentence?
There are still a few bloodhouses, as the rowdier institutions are called, patronized exclusively by men;
What part of speech is bloodhouse?
Bloodhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of bloodhouse?
The plural of bloodhouse is bloodhouses.

Words near bloodhouse in the dictionary

  1. bloodhorses
  2. bloodhound
  3. bloodhounding
  4. bloodhoundish
  5. bloodhounds
  6. bloodhouse
  7. bloodhouses
  8. bloodhungry
  9. bloodied
  10. bloodied nose
  11. bloodied noses

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