knocking shop

Definition

A brothel.

Example Sentences

• "[A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …"
• "Bloody nonsense, "All come together"... Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh."
• "Mr Clark, an unrepentant philanderer now gone to the knocking shop in the sky, recorded for posterity his liaisons with Valerie, Josephine and Alison Harkess."