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Etymology
Compound of cat + house.
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Noun
cathouse (plural cathouses)
- (US, slang) A brothel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:brothel
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 5:Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars […] ?
- (rare, literally) Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.
2012, Chrystal Parker, Daily Dose of Dogs (Aka Cats with Your Coffee), page 490:Alot of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.
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