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单词 hush-shop
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hush-shopn.

Etymology: < hush v.1 or hush adj., in reference to the quietness of its operations.
local.
A house for the clandestine sale of drink; an unlicensed drink-shop. (See quot. 1865.)
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1844 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical 108 In short, it was a hush-shop.
1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 287 The Sunday is spent..in the beer-shop, or gin-shop, or hush-shop.
1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 15 (note) The term ‘Hush Shop’..‘hush’ signifying that the company frequenting such places were expected to conduct themselves as orderly as possible, that no alarm might be given to parties in authority.
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