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knocking shops

knocking shops is the plural 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 shops

What is knocking shops the plural of?
Knocking shops is the plural of knocking shop.

Words near knocking shops in the dictionary

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

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