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knock shop

knock shop is the alternative form of knocking shop.

Meaning of knocking shop

Noun

knocking shop (plural knocking shops)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) A brothel.
    • [A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …1945, Evelyn Waugh, “Epilogue”, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, page 300

Forms of knock shop

pluralknock shops

Questions about knock shop

What is knock shop the alternative form of?
Knock shop is the alternative form of knocking shop.

Words near knock shop in the dictionary

  1. knock out
  2. knock out of the box
  3. knock over
  4. knock round
  5. knock rummy
  6. knock shop
  7. knock shops
  8. knock sideways
  9. knock some sense into
  10. knock someone down with a feather
  11. knock someone flat

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