canhouse en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkanhaʊs/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From can + house.
Meanings
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(US, qualifier:chiefly Chicago, slang) A brothel.
The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| canhouses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |