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hot-pillow adjective said of a hotel or motel that rents rooms for sexual liaisons for cash, without registering the guests using the room US, 1954- He operated what is known as a hot pillow motel. That means a motel that is conducted on an immoral basis. — Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Juvenile Delinquency, p. 62, 1956
- [T]heir idea of a good time was grabbing a case of beer and heading for the nearest hot pillow joint. — Martin Boyle, Yanks Don’t Cry, p. 10, 1963
- Until after World War II, the tourist court was considered the poor cousin of the hotel–a place which catered to the “hot pillow trade,” to use J. Edgar Hoover’s eloquent phrase. — Washington Post, p. 1 (Weekend), 12 January 1979
- Many of Hoover’s “dens of vice” were once decent places that, unable to keep up, turned to the “hot pillow trade.” — Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, p. 254, 1985
- Doohan could hardly keep from telling the man that the beautiful woman everyone was admiring was the woman who spent time with him in a certain hot-pillow motel at least once a week, sometimes more. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 221, 1988
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