brothel

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Argot (French, Spanish, Catalan for "slang is a language used by various groups, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary of study, hobby, job, sport, etc. Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively. He describes it in his novel, Les Miserables.

Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world."

The earliest known recording of the term "argot" was in 1628, and the word probably derives from the name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

brothel

BROTHEL

boom-boom house; boom-boom parlor noun,
US, 1966
• — American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) 9th
January 1966

chicken ranch noun, US, 1973
a rural brothel
Originally the name of a brothel in LaGrange,
Texas, and then spread to more generic use.
• Hey, you don’t make a thousand bucks tax-
free by staying in bed unless you’re working
at one of those chicken ranches in Nevada.
—Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights 1992

creep house noun, US, 1913
a brothel where customers are routinely robbed
• Warnings of immorality were probably less
effective than warnings that some brothels
were creep houses or panel houses wherein
visitors were robbed of money and gold
watches. —Irving Lewis Allen, The City in
Slang 1993

grind joint noun, US, 1962
• It’s the snazziest grind joint you ever heard
of. And if you happen to catch clap from
one of the broads over there, you don’t
have to worry because it’s a higher class of
clap. —Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young
Man Drowning 1962

sugar hill noun, US, 1987
• — Maledicta Summer/Winter, 1986–1987:
‘Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles,
flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles’

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