creep joint
creep joint noun: a brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
Noun
creep joint (plural creep joints)
- A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
- Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3
- A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.
Forms of creep joint
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Questions about creep joint
- What does creep joint mean?
- Creep joint means a brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
- What part of speech is creep joint?
- Creep joint is a noun.
- What is the plural of creep joint?
- The plural of creep joint is creep joints.
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