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knocking shop

noun

Definitions

  1. A brothel.

    • [A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …
    • Bloody nonsense, "All come together"... Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh.
    • Mr Clark, an unrepentant philanderer now gone to the knocking shop in the sky, recorded for posterity his liaisons with Valerie, Josephine and Alison Harkess.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA