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ˈknocking-shop slang.
[Cf. knock v. 2 d and Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. knocking-house.]
A brothel.
1860Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 166 Knocking-shop, a brothel, or disreputable house frequented by prostitutes. 1938‘J. Spenser’ Crime against Soc. xiii. 126 She might wonder if you hadn't been gettin' scragged in a knockin' shop for not payin' yer dues. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 300 This eye-sore..always reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops. 1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder xiv. 149 I'm a clean-living man... I wouldn't go to any back-street knocking shop. 1969L. Kennedy Very Lovely People ii. 111 Yes, it seems that some of the girls are running a knocking-shop on the side. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 115 Somewhere there must be a woman whose longings corresponded to mine. Perhaps she could be found, that unknown She, even within the confines of a knocking shop. |