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KTV parlour

KTV parlour noun: a karaoke bar.

ktv parlour: a karaoke bar
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Noun

KTV parlour (plural KTV parlours)

  1. (chiefly Asia) A karaoke bar.
    • A Hong Kong newspaper reported on Wednesday that Lai Ming-yih, a vice manager of a Taiwan-owned shoe factory in Dongwan, Guangdong Province, was killed on Sunday by four men from Taiwan at a downtown KTV parlour as a result of a quarrel over a waitress serving there.1998, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific
    • What are entertainment limitations – is a round of golf or a night at the KTV parlour acceptable or not?2011, Jonathan Reuvid, Business Insights: China, →ISBN, page 247

Examples of KTV parlour in a sentence

  • In the mid 1990s there were government campaigns against KTV parlours.2011, Unn Målfrid Rolandsen, Leisure and Power in Urban China, →ISBN:
  • However, the number of cases like the Kampong Cham monks arrested at a KTV parlour was “very few”.2015 May 2, Sean Teehan, Khouth Sophak Chakrya, “Monks behaving badly”, in The Phnom Penh Post:

Forms of KTV parlour

pluralKTV parlours

Questions about KTV parlour

What does KTV parlour mean?
KTV parlour means a karaoke bar.
How do you use KTV parlour in a sentence?
In the mid 1990s there were government campaigns against KTV parlours.
What part of speech is KTV parlour?
KTV parlour is a noun.
What is the plural of KTV parlour?
The plural of KTV parlour is KTV parlours.

Words near KTV parlour in the dictionary

  1. KTV bars
  2. KTV girl
  3. KTV girls
  4. KTV lounge
  5. KTV lounges
  6. KTV parlour
  7. KTV parlours
  8. KTVs
  9. KU
  10. Ku Klux
  11. Ku Klux Klan

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