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nanny shops

nanny shops is the plural of nanny shop.

Meaning of nanny shop

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

Questions about nanny shops

What is nanny shops the plural of?
Nanny shops is the plural of nanny shop.

Words near nanny shops in the dictionary

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

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