Ho Chi Minh Motel noun a rest house used by the Viet Cong along a trail or route US
He outlined, with a map and a pointer, the objective: a reported Vietcong rest house on a route traversing the area. “The Ho Chi Minh motel,” someone said, a used but still popular joke, — David Halberstam, OneVeryHotDay, p. 8, 1967