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- noun Alternative spelling of
knocking shop .
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Examples
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Even when a previous chairman was taped in a Spanish knocking-shop talking about 'slappers' and the profit margin on replica shirts they kept loyal.
Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor 2011
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Well, true enough, I'd found it a fair mixture of jail and knocking-shop; I stood there trying to look like a chap who says his prayers in a cold bath every day.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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The result was that Grattan was sought out and offered the post of chief of the knocking-shop police, which he accepted, puffing his long nose and bland as you please.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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The result was that Grattan was sought out and offered the post of chief of the knocking-shop police, which he accepted, puffing his long nose and bland as you please.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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The result was that Grattan was sought out and offered the post of chief of the knocking-shop police, which he accepted, puffing his long nose and bland as you please.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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I'd suggested turning his private knocking-shop into a store room for reproduction 'antiques'.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Take Me Out - in all its shameful, neon, shouty, glorified knocking-shop splendour - has became a pivotal part of Saturday night TV.
The Guardian World News Grace Dent 2011
madmouth commented on the word knocking-shop
house of ill repute
May 8, 2009
yarb commented on the word knocking-shop
A village nearby where I grew up went by the name of Knockin - its shop was monikered as you might expect.
May 8, 2009