Meanings
nounnanny shop (plural nanny shops)
plural nanny shops
- archaicslangA brothel.
I didn't think he'd be spending any money on a girl that night—he had the rail-carriage-glazed look of a tourist and the wide eyes of a man who's never been in a nanny shop before and just wants to take it all in.
2015, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, page 163
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