cathouse
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9.6
- noun
- /ˈkæthaʊs/
- Offensive
:
burdel
- What's a town without a cathouse?
Examples
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Your own personal cathouse.
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That was the only cathouse in town.
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It is the biggest cathouse east of Port Said, man.
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So, I open up a cathouse in Des Moines.
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Burnside hopes to die exhausted in a cathouse with the sweet taste of bourbon on his tongue.
Fiction book (1996) -
Paula's brother Jerry told her that Jimmy Kogan drove out with friends to the cathouses of Kankakee and Braidwood, Illinois, on weekends.
Fiction book (1991) -
The old cathouse at the end of the street was notorious for its dubious clientele.
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Last night, we passed by a bustling cathouse filled with laughter and music.
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He often mentioned the cathouse where he used to work years ago.
Synonyms
77
6.3
A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes
42
7.8
A building where people pay to have sex with prostitutes
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9.6
A building where people pay to have sex
2
8.9
A place where people pay to have sex
1
7.6
A building where people pay for sex
A house where people pay for sex
A house where people go to pay for sex
A building where people pay for sex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cathouse is old slang for a brothel and probably comes from the slang use of cat for certain women in the 1800s, so it was imagined as a house 'of cats' — an easy picture to remember. That's why cathouse means 'a place where prostitutes are available'.