| 单词 | panel house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspanel house panel house n. Criminals' slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a brothel where customers are robbed by means of a sliding wall panel. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > with sliding panels panel house1848 panel-den1859 panel joint1923 1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. iii. 44 This is a panel-house and I have led a bad, bad life for many a year. 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 487 Many of the street walkers are in the regular employ of the ‘panel houses’. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 199 Why wind up, scarred from ankles to breast, in some panel house in Trinidad? 1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. v. 184 Panel houses,..where, once a john was safely occupied in a bed, a male house employee..would silently push through a detachable panel in the wainscotting and make for the pockets of the pants hung..on a nearby chair. < as lemmas |
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