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单词 chippyhouse
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chippyhouse
C1. U.S. As a modifier, forming nouns denoting a brothel or place where prostitutes work, as in chippyhouse, chippy joint, etc.
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1895 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity Jan. 354 He overheard someone remark that ‘he had plenty of money, that his mother kept a chippy-house, and that he was a bastard’.
1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xii. 254 Your place is getting the reputation of a regular chippyhouse.
1942 R. Haig-Brown Timber (1993) xiv. 197 Why in hell do we have to do this, go and break up a chippy joint and waste a whole evening?
1990 S. Morgan Homeboy ix. 63 A tenspot was his toll, more than twice the going rate, but the Troll's was hardly the regular chippy joint that got raided every week.
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