Definition of "knocking-shop" []

• Alternative spelling of knocking shop. (noun)

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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."
• "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 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."