hook shop

English

Noun

hook shop (plural hook shops)

1. (informal) A brothel.
   • 1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237:

     Van Raalte said the girl would have "received better treatment in any hook shop."

   • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 136:

     One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine.

   • 2010, Jim Thompson, The Grifters, →ISBN:

     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.

Related terms

• hooker