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nanny shop

nanny shop noun: a brothel.

Noun

nanny shop (plural nanny shops)

  1. (archaic, slang) A brothel.
    • I didn't think he'd be spending any money on a girl that night—he had the rail-carriage-glazed look of a tourist and the wide eyes of a man who's never been in a nanny shop before and just wants to take it all in.2015, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, page 163

Forms of nanny shop

pluralnanny shops

Questions about nanny shop

What does nanny shop mean?
Nanny shop means a brothel.
What part of speech is nanny shop?
Nanny shop is a noun.
What is the plural of nanny shop?
The plural of nanny shop is nanny shops.

Words near nanny shop in the dictionary

  1. nanny dogs
  2. nanny goat
  3. nanny goats
  4. nanny nanny boo boo
  5. Nanny of the Maroons
  6. nanny shop
  7. nanny shops
  8. nanny state
  9. nanny states
  10. nanny-goat
  11. nanny-goats

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