hook shop
noun1
Informal A brothel.
- 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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- 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:
- Related terms
- hooker