gentlemen's clubs
Exclusive male establishments
Gentlemen's clubs has two distinct meanings.
The older sense refers to private social clubs for upper-class men, particularly in Britain—establishments like the Athenaeum or Reform Club where members dine, drink, and network in wood-paneled rooms.
The newer and now more common sense is a euphemism for strip clubs: He expensed dinner at a gentlemen's club.
- clubhousesBuildings for member gatherings
- MayfairUpscale central London district
- cigarsRolled tobacco for smoking
- LondonEngland's capital city
- PiccadillyCentral London street
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- elite networksold boys network, inner circle, inner circles, cronyism, nepotism
- private clubsclubhouse, clubhouses, private clubs, social clubs, country clubs
- Victorian etiquettecalling hours, visiting cards, chaperoning, propriety, decorum
- vice industriesstrip clubs, porn, pornography, adult entertainment, sex shops
- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, sex work
gentlemen's clubspublic houses
Licensed premises selling alcohol
community centers · public parks · town halls · public squares · pubs
gentlemen's clubsdive bars
Rundown neighborhood taverns
union halls · honky-tonks · sports bars · saloons · roadhouses
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