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(Britain, representing nonstandard or dialect pronunciation, especially Cockney) Half.
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(historical, UK) One of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London, England for the sinecure of inspecting the measures used in public houses.
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A temporary cage for holding slaves, indentured servants or prisoners in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa.
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Alternative form of wheel-barrow man [(historical) A convict sentenced to hard labor in the 1800s, especially one sentenced to work maintaining the roads.]
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A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
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Alternative spelling of bawdy-house [(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.]
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(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.
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Alternative spelling of bawdy-house [(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.]
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(historical) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
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(slang, derogatory) booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
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(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum, workhouse, or similar institution.
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(US, with article, in the plural) A brushy, rural area or location.
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(historical) A saloon with cubicles in which customers could tryst with waitresses.
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A voluptuous woman with a large rotund buttocks and bust.
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Alternative spelling of brick house [A voluptuous woman with a large rotund buttocks and bust.]
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A house of prostitution.
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(archaic, historical) A house of prostitution; whorehouse
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Alternative form of brothel house [(archaic, historical) A house of prostitution; whorehouse]
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Alternative form of brothelkeeper [A person who runs a brothel, whether legally or illegally.]
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a brothel.
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A room, usually part of a sex shop, where a customer can view pornographic material and interact sexually with the customer in the adjacent booth.
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(US, slang) A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
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A club or brothel employing bunny girls.
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A South Korean town whose livelihood relies on a United States Forces Korea military base. Camptowns are associated especially with prostitution.
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(US, mainly Chicago, slang) A brothel, bordello.
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(slang, US, chiefly Chicago) A brothel.
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Alternative spelling of cathouse [(US, slang) A brothel.]
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A neighborhood on the southern edge of downtown Boston that included numerous bars, peep shows, pornography vendors, and prostitution.
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(Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
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Alternative spelling of crack house [(informal) A residential building where crack cocaine is manufactured, sold, or consumed.]
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(historical) A low lodging house into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
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Alternative form of dinner lady [(Britain, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.]
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(now historical) A brothel.
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(informal) Any shabby or disreputable establishment.
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(US) A miniature house used by children as a toy or as a base for domestic dioramas.
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A cheap inn; a flophouse.
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(transitive, rare or obsolete) To inclose or harbour in a brothel.
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(euphemistic) A brothel.
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Alternative form of flophouse [(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.]
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Alternative spelling of frat house [(US) A building in which the members of a fraternity reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university.]
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Alternative form of frithguild [(historical) A sort of Anglo-Saxon frankpledge for the purpose of keeping order.]
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(vulgar, slang) A brothel.
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(rare, vulgar) A brothel.
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(euphemistic) A brothel.
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(obsolete) An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
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(archaic) A casino or other place for gambling
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(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A man.
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(obsolete, figuratively) Hell.
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(obsolete) An inn or bar.
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(US, slang) A cheap restaurant.
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(US, colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
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(uncountable, music) Synonym of witch house (“music genre”)
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The female equivalent of a highwayman.
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(slang) House, residence.
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(historical) A former street in central London, famed for selling pornography in Victorian times.
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(obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
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(archaic, euphemistic) brothel
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(idiomatic, euphemistic) A brothel
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(euphemistic) A brothel.
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Alternative form of juke house [(Southern US) Synonym of juke (“type of roadside cafe or bar”)]
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A person employed to look after kennels.
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(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
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Alternative spelling of knocking shop [(chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, slang) A brothel.]
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Alternative form of lazar house [(archaic) Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.]
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Alternative spelling of leaping house [(obsolete) A brothel.]
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(obsolete, slang) A house or lodging.
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A male elevator attendant.
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(formal, archaic) A brothel.
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(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.
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A low-class hotel where rooms are rented out by the hour, especially to prostitutes and their clients.
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A place that offers a happy ending (a hand job) after the massage; a front organization for a brothel.
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(Britain) Alternative spelling of massage parlor [A place where clients can pay for a massage.]
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(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
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Alternative spelling of meat house [A place where meat is cured or stored]
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Alternative form of molly house [(now historical, slang) A tavern or other establishment in 18th and 19th century England where homosexuals could meet for sexual encounters.]
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Alternative form of molly house [(now historical, slang) A tavern or other establishment in 18th and 19th century England where homosexuals could meet for sexual encounters.]
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Alternative form of molly house [(now historical, slang) A tavern or other establishment in 18th and 19th century England where homosexuals could meet for sexual encounters.]
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Alternative form of molly house [(now historical, slang) A tavern or other establishment in 18th and 19th century England where homosexuals could meet for sexual encounters.]
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A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
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(Canada, US, historical) A male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness.
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(slang, archaic) A brothel.
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(chiefly Australia, informal, countable) A person doing military national service.
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Alternative form of night house [(now chiefly historical) A tavern, music-hall, or other public house which is open during the night.]
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Synonym of no-tell motel: a love hotel
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Alternative form of nuthouse [(informal, offensive) A hospital for the mentally ill.]
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(informal, offensive) A hospital for the mentally ill.
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(northern UK, slang) A hospital.
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(obsolete) A brothel whose rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates.
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A brothel with a parlor, often elaborately decorated, for the reception of clients.
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A brothel for male homosexuals.
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(historical, rare) Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.
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(US) A female plower, who plows land with a plow.
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(India, historical) An inn or tavern.
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(US) someone who owns or operates a saloon (drinking establishment)
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In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse.
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(New Zealand, slang) A university student, especially one from the University of Otago.
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(US) A man employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.
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A brothel or place of debauchery.
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(historical) A house of correction where delinquent women such as prostitutes were made to work at spinning.
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A female attendant in a stable, looking after the horses.
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(obsolete) A menial attendant.
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(slang) A cinema that shows pornographic films.
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(Scotland) A person who holds a tack from another; a tenant.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A man employed in a small household, in charge of the coach, garden, and general work.
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A young male crossing guard.
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(historical) A place where oil is extracted from blubber, etc.
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A woman who works driving or travelling in a van; a woman who works from a van.
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(obsolete, slang) A brothel.
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Alternative form of whorehouse [(vulgar) Brothel.]
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