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hook shops

hook shops is the plural of hook shop.

Meaning of hook shop

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

Questions about hook shops

What is hook shops the plural of?
Hook shops is the plural of hook shop.

Words near hook shops in the dictionary

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

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