clip joint

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all. informal
    — "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."

词形变化

clip joints plural clip-joint alternative clipjoint alternative

词源

From clip (“to cheat, swindle, or fleece”) and joint (“disparaging US slang for a place of business”).
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