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Clip joint

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all. informal

    ""They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.""

  2. 2
    a place of entertainment where high prices are charged for poor entertainment wordnet

Etymology

From clip (“to cheat, swindle, or fleece”) and joint (“disparaging US slang for a place of business”).

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