creep joint

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creep joint (plural creep joints)

  1. (US, slang) A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 3:
      Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.
  2. (US, slang) A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.
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