"hook shop" meaning in English

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      "form": "hook shops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "hook shop (plural hook shops)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237",
          "text": "Van Raalte said the girl would have \"received better treatment in any hook shop.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, page 136",
          "text": "One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jim Thompson, The Grifters",
          "text": "And he never comes back, Mr Dillon; he's damned well told that it ain't necessary, because this is a hotel not a hook shop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brothel."
      ],
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          "brothel",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A brothel."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hooker"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hook shop"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hook shops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hook shop (plural hook shops)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hooker"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237",
          "text": "Van Raalte said the girl would have \"received better treatment in any hook shop.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, page 136",
          "text": "One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jim Thompson, The Grifters",
          "text": "And he never comes back, Mr Dillon; he's damned well told that it ain't necessary, because this is a hotel not a hook shop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brothel."
      ],
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      ],
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        "(informal) A brothel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hook shop"
}