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creep joints

creep joints is the plural of creep joint.

Meaning of creep joint

Noun

creep joint (plural creep joints)

  1. (US, slang) 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
  2. (US, slang) A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.

Questions about creep joints

What is creep joints the plural of?
Creep joints is the plural of creep joint.

Words near creep joints in the dictionary

  1. creening
  2. creens
  3. creep
  4. creep in
  5. creep joint
  6. creep joints
  7. creep on
  8. creep out
  9. creep shot
  10. creep shots
  11. creep up

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