brothel creeper

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brothel creeper (plural brothel creepers)

  1. (dated) A type of soft shoe with a crepe sole.
    • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 9, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
      And yet, with the national celebration of teds in the 1970s, drape coats and brothel creepers entered into the canon of permanent English style.