canhouse

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English

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Etymology

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From can +‎ house.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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canhouse (plural canhouses)

  1. (slang, US, chiefly Chicago) A brothel.
    • 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
      The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.