"crimping house" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: crimping houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} crimping house (plural crimping houses)
  1. (historical) A low lodging house into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-crimping_house-en-noun-X~Gxxybg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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