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canhouses

canhouses is the plural of canhouse.

Meaning of canhouse

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

Questions about canhouses

What is canhouses the plural of?
Canhouses is the plural of canhouse.

Words near canhouses in the dictionary

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

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