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no-tell motel

no-tell motel noun: a love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.

Noun

no-tell motel (plural no-tell motels)

  1. (slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
    • There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120

Synonyms of no-tell motel

Forms of no-tell motel

pluralno-tell motels

Origin of no-tell motel

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

Questions about no-tell motel

What does no-tell motel mean?
No-tell motel means a love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
What part of speech is no-tell motel?
No-tell motel is a noun.
What is the plural of no-tell motel?
The plural of no-tell motel is no-tell motels.

Words near no-tell motel in the dictionary

  1. no-strides
  2. no-strings-attached
  3. no-take
  4. no-tell hotel
  5. no-tell hotels
  6. no-tell motel
  7. no-tell motels
  8. no-till
  9. no-tillage
  10. no-tilled
  11. no-time

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