knock shop

plural knock shops

1. alternativeAlternative form of knocking shop.

   “They know a lot of women in Bilbarra.” “Yeah, only they all live at the knock shop,” Teague said.

   2012, Kate Hoffmann, The Mighty Quinns: Callum

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   I was seven years in Aussie, and I lived with the queens in a one-bedroomed place in Melbourne. They were all cracking it on the street and I worked in a knock shop.

   1991, Jan Jordan, Working girls

   World War II and its influx of American servicemen into Auckland provided the impetus for MacKenzie's dual career. The frock shop was finally shut in 1957, as the knock shop continued to thrive. Between 1962 and 1976, she appeared in court six times on brothel-keeping charges, and was twice jailed for six months.

   2018 September 17, “Trailblazers: Flora MacKenzie”, in New Zealand Herald