Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A house of prostitution.

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  • noun Brothel.

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  • noun a building where prostitutes are available

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Examples

  • The "bait and switch scheme," whereby by the FED would buy and warehouse (I was actually tempted to use the word whorehouse here) worth-less or worthless securities for financial entities at their booked carrying values to preclude write-down and forestall inevitable insolvency, will buy some time, but it doesn't fix anything.

    Financial Sense Newshour 2008

  • In fact, you might know that a woman going to a whorehouse is a bit desperate, because it is totally desperate and depressing.

    Men Are Terrible At Being Prostitutes | Manolith 2010

  • You might think that a woman going to a whorehouse is a bit desperate, considering that women can get laid whenever they want to be.

    Men Are Terrible At Being Prostitutes | Manolith 2010

  • The idea that women actually want to have sex with men is one I regard with grave mistrust this mistrust peaked right after I had a sigmoidoscopy so hearing them whooping it up like a couple of prospectors on the way to the whorehouse was a real eye-opener.

    Hilarious Sex Traumas Sean Craven 2009

  • The idea that women actually want to have sex with men is one I regard with grave mistrust this mistrust peaked right after I had a sigmoidoscopy so hearing them whooping it up like a couple of prospectors on the way to the whorehouse was a real eye-opener.

    Archive 2009-08-16 Sean Craven 2009

  • And I am just going to a whorehouse, which is a place.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Says the narrator: "The worst thing about going to a whorehouse was the moment of entry".

    The First Post: Latest 2008

  • You can say, "Well, I needed the money." or "Everyone else in the whorehouse was a whore too, so I was just going along to get along."

    Thompson Responds To Story Charging He Consulted For Flight 103 Bombers 2009

  • NEWSWEEK portrayed the Abramoff lobbying scandal in terms of excess, accident and too much zeal, using words like "whorehouse," "party" and "drug dealer."

    Mail Call 2007

  • The original title of the post which I see has been changed had "whorehouse" in the title.

    This just in... Ed Hollett 2007

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