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Minnesota strip
noun
an area in New York City frequented by prostitutes US, 1977- For the last three years we have operated our program there, on the so-called “Minnesota Strip,” a seamy fifteen-block stretch of Eight Avenue. — Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, p. 204, 1981
- The “Minnesota Strip”–Eighth Avenue between 34th and 55th streets–picked up its nickname in 1972. Many hookers gave Minneapolis as their home city whenever asked, to the point of it becoming a cynical retort, though some undoubtedly told the truth. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 143, 1986
- “It’s a brothel, Judy, on West Forty-first Street. In the Minnesota Strip.” — Michael Collins, Minnesota Strip, p. 6, 1987
- For the past three years, she’s been under the watchful eye of “Sweetpea,” a very grimy excuse for a human being who plies the sexual trade on the Minnesota Strip. — Mary Rose McGeady, Are you out there, God?, p. 38, 1999
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