clip joint

See also: clipjoint, and clip-joint

English

Alternative forms

• clip-joint, clipjoint

Etymology

From clip (“to cheat, swindle, or fleece”) and joint (“disparaging US slang for a place of business”).

Noun

clip joint (plural clip joints)

1. (informal) 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.
   • 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo‎^[1]:

     "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."