creep joint
English
Noun
creep joint (plural creep joints)
- (US, slang) A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 3:
- Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 3:
- (US, slang) A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.