strip joint
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- noun
- /strɪp dʒɔɪnt/
- NSFW
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club de striptease
- Apparently they want to turn it into a strip joint.
- go to a strip joint
- lot of strip joints
- local strip joint
Examples
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Seriously, how many bars, nightclubs, and strip joints are too many in Buckhead?
Blog text (12) -
You hit the strip joint, that's what I say.
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I stop for a drink at the local strip joint.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hey Jim, how about hitting a strip joint?
Fiction book (1991) -
All the clubs turned into strip joints.
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Then she thought she could make it as a dancer, but the only offers she got were from strip joints.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you want the right girl, you can't keep going to the same strip joint, OK?
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They shouldn't tell us to stay out of strip joints.
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There's a raunchy strip joint where tattooed guys hang out.
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For their bachelor party, they decided to visit a strip joint for a night of entertainment.
How Adult
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'strip' (a striptease performance) + 'joint' (an informal bar/club) yields a club where striptease is performed. This follows a common English compounding pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Strip joint comes from the words strip, meaning to take off clothes, and joint, a casual word for a bar or club. This gives a clear image of a place where performers remove their clothes on stage, so it means 'a bar or nightclub where striptease is given'.