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hook shop en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (informal) A brothel.
   • And he never comes back, Mr Dillon; he's damned well told that it ain't necessary, because this is a hotel not a hook shop. 2010, Jim Thompson, The Grifters, →ISBN:
   • Van Raalte said the girl would have "received better treatment in any hook shop." 1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237:
   • One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine. 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 136:

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hooker