Meaning of knocking shop | Babel Free

Definitions

A brothel.

Australia, British, New-Zealand, slang

Examples

“[A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …”

“Bloody nonsense, "All come together"... Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh.”

“Mr Clark, an unrepentant philanderer now gone to the knocking shop in the sky, recorded for posterity his liaisons with Valerie, Josephine and Alison Harkess.”

“[It] had made Mick's heart soar, if only briefly, at the thought that he and Alma might outlive the monster breeze blocks that were used to smash their home ground into crack dens, knocking shops and a despairing dust that settled everywhere on people's heartstrings.”

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