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clip-jointnounAlternative form of clip joint. [(informal) 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.]
jook jointnounAlternative spelling of juke joint. [(slang) An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.]
night clubnounAlternative form of nightclub. [A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.]
slipjointnoun(metonymic) A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife.
hair-clipnounAlternative spelling of hairclip.
niteclubnoun(US, informal) Alternative form of nightclub. [A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.]
night spotnounAlternative spelling of nightspot. [An establishment that is open late at night, especially one that provides entertainment, such as a nightclub.]
hair clipnounA clip to hold back the hair.
bucketshopnounAlternative spelling of bucket shop. [(finance, derogatory, obsolete) A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.]
knocking-shopnounAlternative spelling of knocking shop. [(chiefly Australia, British, New Zealand, slang) A brothel.]
chop-shopverb(transitive) To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
railjointnounAlternative form of rail joint. [(rail transport) A join between two rails in a railway track placed end to end; the rails are joined by fishplates where joints are not welded.]
lashupnounAlternative spelling of lash-up. [(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.]
gentleman's clubnounAlternative form of gentlemen's club. [A private club of a type originally established by and for British upper-class men in the 18th century.]
clove-hitchnounAlternative form of clove hitch. [(nautical) a bend formed by two half hitches in the same direction, used to make a line fast to a spar or to a larger rope; it will not slip]
chopshopnounAlternative form of chop shop. [(US) A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.]
club nightnounAlternative form of clubnight. [A dance party held at a nightclub, or a series of such parties.]
chop housenounAlternative form of chophouse. [(now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.]
jumpcutnounAlternative spelling of jump cut. [(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.]
sockhopnounAlternative spelling of sock hop. [(US, historical) In the 1950s, informal sponsored dance at American high schools, typically held on the grounds of the high school itself in the gymnasium or cafeteria.]

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