See bloodhouse on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1988, Nick Lush, Australia, →ISBN, page 203:",
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"ref": "1992, Journal of Drug Issues, page 682:",
"text": "[…]negative environmental factors that make some establishments bloodhouses year after year and many more establishments violent on a less predictable basis.",
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"ref": "2007, Michael Caulfield, The Vietnam Years: From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2017, Steve Langley, Erskineville to the Bush, BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 41:",
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"ref": "2017, Michael Brissenden, The List, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:",
"text": "A lot of the traffic had been diverted from Crown and Bourke streets, cafes and restaurants had sprung up and the local pubs that had been either bloodhouses or Indie music venues had become gastro pubs serving twice-cooked pork belly and confit duck to bankers, advertising types and media people.",
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"ref": "2021, Jeff Apter, Behind Dark Eyes: The True Story of John English, Woodslane Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "Their sound had been honed in the bloodhouses of Hamburg; it was raw and primal and unashamedly sexual.",
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