canhouse
English
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edit- IPA(key): /ˈkanhaʊs/
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Noun
editcanhouse (plural canhouses)
- (slang, US, chiefly Chicago) A brothel.
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
- The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.