nanny shop
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]nanny shop (plural nanny shops)
- (slang, archaic) A brothel.
- 2015, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, page 163:
- I didn't think he'd be spending any money on a girl that night—he had the rail-carriage-glazed look of a tourist and the wide eyes of a man who's never been in a nanny shop before and just wants to take it all in.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary