canhouse

canhouse
noun /ˈkanhaʊs/

The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.


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  • canhouse —    American    a brothel    The derivation may be from the slang can, the buttocks:     The little girls, looking so sweet and demure, knew all the words for canhouses... and seemed ready to illustrate them with anyone. (Longstreet, 1956)    The… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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