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  • noun Plural form of crackhouse.

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Examples

  • Where ALF the former sitcom ran through crackhouses measureless to man, down to a sunless sea.

    The Big Picture: Taking It All In BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • At Frontera, crackhouses and shooting galleries operate in portable toilets in the yard.

    Women In Jail: Unequal Justice 2008

  • During the 1980's and 1990's, some 20 or 30 years after I and my family had moved on, my old neighborhood became notorious for hosting crackhouses and for deranged youths firing automatic weapons at each other from across the street.

    Racism and Randi Rhodes 2008

  • Brown took the reverend into crackhouses, introduced him to the neighborhood.

    Savior Of The Streets 2008

  • The sight of so many professionals bellying up to Washington espresso bars moved a local public-relations executive to remark that "coffeehouses are middle-class crackhouses."

    Jiving With Java 2008

  • Truly the man belongs to a bygone age, one composed of blow jobs, policy incrementalism, terror amidst crackhouses and "welfare reform".

    The Chimes at Midnight 2006

  • We of course went through some of the crackhouses, and no information there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005 2005

  • I'd already checked Jasmine's apartment, her boyfriend's apartment, her parents 'house, her known pickup spots, and three local crackhouses.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • I'd already checked Jasmine's apartment, her boyfriend's apartment, her parents 'house, her known pickup spots, and three local crackhouses.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • But I'm ready for crackhouses, fried candy bars and racist rednecks.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2002

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