Definition of "whorehouse" []

• A house of prostitution. (noun)

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• "The "bait and switch scheme," whereby by the FED would buy and warehouse (I was actually tempted to use the word whorehouse here) worth-less or worthless securities for financial entities at their booked carrying values to preclude write-down and forestall inevitable insolvency, will buy some time, but it doesn't fix anything."
• "In fact, you might know that a woman going to a whorehouse is a bit desperate, because it is totally desperate and depressing."
• "You might think that a woman going to a whorehouse is a bit desperate, considering that women can get laid whenever they want to be."