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canhouse

/ˈkanhaʊs/

canhouse noun: a brothel.

Noun

canhouse (plural canhouses)

  1. (US, slang, chiefly Chicago) A brothel.
    • The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22

canhouse meaning in Bengali

canhouse in Bengali

একটি বেশ্যালয়

Forms of canhouse

pluralcanhouses

Origin of canhouse

From can + house.

Questions about canhouse

What does canhouse mean?
Canhouse means a brothel.
What is canhouse in Bengali?
Canhouse in Bengali is একটি বেশ্যালয়. See Canhouse meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is canhouse?
Canhouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce canhouse?
Canhouse is pronounced /ˈkanhaʊs/.
What is the plural of canhouse?
The plural of canhouse is canhouses.

Words near canhouse in the dictionary

  1. Cangxi
  2. Cangzhou
  3. Canham
  4. Canhameira
  5. Canhams
  6. canhouse
  7. canhouses
  8. Caniaba
  9. Caniac
  10. Caniambo
  11. Caniapiskau

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canhouse (page history and authors); canhouse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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