canhouse

noun

canhouse

noun

/ˈkanhaʊs/

Etymology From can + house.

1

US, Slang A brothel.

Chiefly Chicago

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:

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