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brothel creeper

brothel creeper noun: a type of soft shoe with a crepe sole.

Noun

brothel creeper (plural brothel creepers)

  1. (dated) A type of soft shoe with a crepe sole.
    • And yet, with the national celebration of teds in the 1970s, drape coats and brothel creepers entered into the canon of permanent English style.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 9, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Forms of brothel creeper

pluralbrothel creepers

Questions about brothel creeper

What does brothel creeper mean?
Brothel creeper means a type of soft shoe with a crepe sole.
What part of speech is brothel creeper?
Brothel creeper is a noun.
What is the plural of brothel creeper?
The plural of brothel creeper is brothel creepers.

Words near brothel creeper in the dictionary

  1. brothah
  2. brothahs
  3. brothas
  4. brothe
  5. brothel
  6. brothel creeper
  7. brothel creepers
  8. brothel house
  9. brothel houses
  10. brothel-house
  11. brothel-houses

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