knock-shop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Prue's mind raced. "You mean, Harry Allway has a house at Ulladulla?" "More of a weekend knock-shop, from what I hear," sneered the old salt."
- "Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching"
- "The other two doors lead God only knows where but Misty's knock-shop is just around the corner and our barman Adam tells us: "We get a few men coming in who don't want a drink.""
- "Delighted, we set about organising some 4X4 gear and purchased a second-hand Landy in reasonable nick which had to be fitted with long-range tanks, a roofrack and all the clever mod-cons. The knock-shop had nearly three months to do it."
- "You may be completely uninsured, and so be tempted to take your car into an affordable backyard knock-shop."