joy house

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joy house (plural joy houses)

  1. (US slang) A brothel.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 18:
      ‘You try her,’ Nulty said. ‘I ain't been in a joy house in twenty years.’
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