creep joint

plural creep joints

1. USslangA brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.

   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.

   1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3

2. USslangA gambling game which moves to a different location every night.