knocking-shop

knocking-shop
   a brothel
   Derived from the obsolete knock but still a common usage:
    At the fifth knocking-shop, I struck pure gold. (Fraser, 1971: the gold was figurative — he had found a bawd to hide him)
   Formerly also as knocking-house, knocking-joint or knocker's shop:
    ... in twenty minutes they had organized a taxi to a 'knocker's shop'. (M. Clark, 1991 — they were 'taking a look at the tarts')

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