joy division
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves.
Example Sentences
- "Here they kept close watch over the girls' bodies to keep them whole, undamaged. Here, when a girl was flogged she was not permitted to return to the Joy Division. She was immediately tossed on the van and—Off to the crematorium!"
- "As the girl, in the present moment, beseeches him to “look,” in a flashback Sol is forced by the commandant to look as various members of the “joy division,” and then specifically his wife, service SS guards."
Etymology
Calque of German Freudenabteilung. Popularized in the novella House of Dolls (1955), now considered largely fictional by many historians, although brothels did exist in some Nazi concentrations camps.