clip joint
nounEtymology
From clip (“to cheat, swindle, or fleece”) and joint (“disparaging US slang for a place of business”).
Definitions
An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying…
An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all.
- "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA