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hook shop

hook shop noun: a brothel.

Noun

hook shop (plural hook shops)

  1. (informal) A brothel.
    • Van Raalte said the girl would have "received better treatment in any hook shop."1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237
    • One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine.2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 136

Forms of hook shop

pluralhook shops

Questions about hook shop

What does hook shop mean?
Hook shop means a brothel.
What part of speech is hook shop?
Hook shop is a noun.
What is the plural of hook shop?
The plural of hook shop is hook shops.

Words near hook shop in the dictionary

  1. Hook of Holland
  2. hook off
  3. hook pin
  4. hook pins
  5. Hook Point poison
  6. hook shop
  7. hook shops
  8. hook shot
  9. hook shots
  10. hook stock
  11. hook stocks

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