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clip-joint

clip-joint is the alternative form of clip joint.

Meaning of clip joint

Noun

clip joint (plural clip joints)

  1. (informal) An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all.
    • "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo

Forms of clip-joint

pluralclip-joints

Questions about clip-joint

What is clip-joint the alternative form of?
Clip-joint is the alternative form of clip joint.

Words near clip-joint in the dictionary

  1. clip the wings of
  2. clip-clop
  3. clip-clopped
  4. clip-clopping
  5. clip-clops
  6. clip-joint
  7. clip-joints
  8. clip-on
  9. clip-ons
  10. clipart
  11. clipbait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clip-joint (page history and authors); clip joint (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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