| 单词 | hot-bed hotel |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot-bed hotel 3. U.S. slang. A bed, usually in a cheap lodging house, which is used by different people in turn (cf. hot desk n.); a lodging house having such beds. Also: a bed in a hotel which rents out rooms for short periods, and is often used for prostitution, meetings between lovers, etc. Also attributive, as hot-bed hotel, hot-bed system, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house common lodging house1748 kip1879 doss-house1888 Rowton house1897 fleabag1907 flop1910 flop-house1923 hotbed1939 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > bed in lodging house > used continuously hotbed1939 1939 N.Y. City Guide (Federal Writers' Project) 392 New York City's most overcrowded community, Harlem..where the ‘hot bed’ serves three shifts of sleepers a day. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 26/1 Hot bed, cheap flop house. 1953 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) vii. 77 Since production went on only during daylight hours, the hot-bed system wasn't in use. 1953 ‘F. Paley’ Rumble on Docks 44 I got a face like an angel, the girls in the hot beds say when they kiss me. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues vi. 253 Hot-bed apartments and kitchenettes were the only dwelling units available to Negroes. 1994 R. Bak Turkey Stearnes & Detroit Stars 131 It didn't take much to open up a brothel: a couple of ‘hot beds’..and perhaps some complimentary rotgut. 2000 ‘E. McBain’ Last Dance 272 The new mayor started cracking down on hookers using hot-bed hotels for their swift transactions. < as lemmas |
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