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no-tell motel
noun
a motel with discreet management favoured by prostitutes and couples seeking privacy US, 1974- [Th]rowing hammerhead sharks into hotel swimming pools, blanket-tossing, building 40-foot high pyramids of empty beer cans on the beach and checking in and out of no-tell motels with handsome Ivy Leaguers. — Washington Post, p. B1, 20 April 1977
- It was a no-tell motel all right. It offered closed-circuit television with X-rated shows. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, p. 186, 1983
- [S]he’d been at it ever since, up and down the coast from Tacoma to Tarzana; in massage parlors, for escort services, in no-tell motels, on street corners. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 4, 1990
- They played the one-room beer joints among the no-tell motels, pawnshops and liquor stores that line the city’s shadieset thoroughfare. — Phoenix New Times, 11 December 2003
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