Cathouse

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkathaÊŠs/

Alternative forms

• cat-house

Origin

From cat + house.

Full definition of cathouse

Noun

1. (US, slang) A brothel.
• 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 5:Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars ...?

Synonyms

Anagrams

• hot sauce, house cat, housecat, soutache