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clip joint; clip dive
noun
a bar, gambling house or other business where customers are routinely cheated US, 1932- Clip Joints: To be avoided, unless you are looking for grief. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 215, 1948
- Baltimore clip-dives operate more closely to the orthodox custom. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 283, 1951
- About the only real aggravation in those days, Watkins remembers, was a parking lot which separated the “legitimate” Stables from a clip joint a few yards East. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 82, 1956
- “[M]ost of these night-clubs are just clip joints.” — Monroe Fry, Sex, Vice, and Business, p. 65, 1959
- Ralph got a job in a clip joint on West 49th Street and soon acquired a good reputation among the whores he protected from tricks complaining about being robbed. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 104, 1967
- There are around six clip-joints in Soho (also called hostess bars and near-beer bars) which promise both alcohol and sex and deliver neither. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 190, 1995
- The regular West End Central officers had already gone around the clubs and clip joints and given the “warning formula”. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 16, 2001
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