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brothel creepers

brothel creepers is the plural of brothel creeper.

Meaning of brothel creeper

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

Questions about brothel creepers

What is brothel creepers the plural of?
Brothel creepers is the plural of brothel creeper.

Words near brothel creepers in the dictionary

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

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