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knocking shops
n. (plural of knocking shop English)
Usage examples of "knocking shops".
Lion City was orderly now, with infantry in guardia armbands on every corner seeing that their comrades went nowhere but to authorized taverns and knocking shops.
The rest of the time the grain and feed stores shut down and the drink and knocking shops opened.
There used to be more knocking shops than telegraph poles down there at one time.