no-tell motel

noun

A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.

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hot-sheet motelno-tell hotelautohotelfast sheetlove hotelmaison de passemotel
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Meanings

nounno-tell motel (plural no-tell motels)

plural no-tell motels

  1. slangA love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.

    There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.

    2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120

    Synonyms: hot-sheet motel, no-tell hotel, autohotel, fast sheet, hot-sheet motel, love hotel, maison de passe, no-tell hotel

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.

Similar
hot-sheet motelno-tell hotelautohotelfast sheethot-sheet motellove hotelmaison de passeno-tell hotelmotel
Also see
hot-sheet motellove hotelno-tell hotelroom by the hour

Origin

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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