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clipjoint

clipjoint is the alternative spelling 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 clipjoint

pluralclipjoints

Questions about clipjoint

What is clipjoint the alternative spelling of?
Clipjoint is the alternative spelling of clip joint.

Words near clipjoint in the dictionary

  1. clipcocks
  2. clipeated
  3. clipei
  4. clipeus
  5. clipfish
  6. clipjoint
  7. clipjoints
  8. clipless
  9. cliplock
  10. clipmap
  11. clipmapping

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