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knocking-shop

knocking-shop is the alternative spelling 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

Questions about knocking-shop

What is knocking-shop the alternative spelling of?
Knocking-shop is the alternative spelling of knocking shop.

Words near knocking-shop in the dictionary

  1. knocking the wind out of someone's sails
  2. knocking together
  3. knocking under
  4. knocking up
  5. knocking wood
  6. knocking-shop
  7. knockingly
  8. knockings
  9. knockins
  10. knockit
  11. knockits

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