HOTEL
NOUNS
► ACCOMMODATION HOUSE a ‘hotel’ where rooms can be hired for short times by lovers or prostitutes and their clients → L19 sl.
► BED-HOUSE a ‘short-time’ hotel → M19 sl.
► BLOODHOUSE a particularly rough hotel, uncomfortable and disorderly → 19C Aust. colloq.
► BUG ROOST a hotel catering to oil field workers → 1954 US sl.
► CHEAP JOHN a flophouse; a cheap brothel; a dirty, dilapidated saloon → 20C Amer. sl.
► CHINCH a cheap hotel or rooming house → 20C US sl.
► CHINCH PAD a cheap hotel or lodging house, esp. if rundown or infested with insects → 1958 African-American sl.
► CHUCK MILL a hotel → 1887 US sl.
► CHUMMERY a small, private hotel → 1890 Aust. sl.
► EARLY OPENER a public hotel that opens early in morning to cater for shift workers → 1981 Aust. sl.
► FAST-SHEET HOTEL a cheap hotel that rents out its room by the hour to prostitutes and their clients or to illicit lovers → 1940s US sl.
► FAST-SHEET JOINT a cheap hotel that rents out its room by the hour to prostitutes and their clients or to illicit lovers → 1940s US sl.
► FAST-SHEET SET-UP a cheap hotel that rents out its room by the hour to prostitutes and their clients or to illicit lovers → 1940s US sl.
► FLEABAG a run-down hotel → 1931 Amer. dial.
► FLEA HOUSE a run-down hotel → 1969 Amer. dial.
► FLEA JOINT a run-down hotel → 1971 Amer. dial.
► FLEA-TRAP a run-down hotel → 1946 Amer. dial.
► FLOP BOX a hotel room, a bedroom, lodgings → 1976 US sl.
► GAFF a hotel → 1930s sl.
► JOINT a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant. etc. sl.
► KIP a lodging house; lodgings, esp. a hotel room or apartment → 1883 Amer. sl., esp. among itinerants
► NOSEBAG a hospitable hotel or lodging-house → 1898 sl.
► NO-TELL HOTEL a cheap hotel which rents out its rooms by the hour to prostitutes and their clients or to illicit lovers → 1955 US sl.
► POISON SHOP a licensed hotel → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► RACK a hotel’s front desk → 1954 US sl.
► SAVELOY, THE the Savoy Hotel, London → c1910 London taxi-drivers’ sl.
► VAULT a hotel baggage checkroom → 1954 US sl.
► WALLOPER a hotel, a bar → 1930s sl.
► WHORETEL a hotel or motel that caters for prostitutes → 1973 US sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BARBER a hotel manager or owner → 1941 Aust. sl.
► BATHROOM BENNY a hotel guest who ducks into the bathroom to avoid tipping the bellboy → 1954 US sl.
► BATHROOM BERTHA a female hotel guest who ducks into the bathroom to avoid tipping the bellboy → 1954 US sl.
► BATHROOM CHARLIE a hotel guest who ducks into the bathroom to avoid tipping the bellboy → 1902 US sl.
► BELL a hotel doorman; a bellboy → 1972 US sl.
► BELL-BOY a boy who answers the bell in a hotel; a hotel page-boy → 1861 US
► BELL CAPTAIN one who supervises a group of bell-boys → 1926 US
► BELL-HOP a hotel page-boy; a bellboy → 1885 US
► BELL-HOPPER a hotel page-boy; a bell-boy → 1881 US
► BILL-CLERK a clerk who makes out the bills at a hotel → 1901 US
► BUTTONS a page or bellboy → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CALL-BOY a youth employed in a hotel to answer the bells → 1888 (Bk.)
► GILT DUBBER a hotel thief → 1859 criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► HALL-BOY a page-boy in a large house; a call-boy in the hall of a hotel or the like → 1884
► LOBBY LIZARD a person who habitually lounges about a hotel lobby → 1939 US sl.
► LOBBY LOUSE a person who habitually lounges about a hotel lobby → 1939 US sl.
► PACK RAT a hotel bellboy; a porter; a bellhop → 1975 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PAGE a boy or young man, usually in uniform, employed by a hotel, club, or other large establishment as a doorman, waiter, porter, etc. → 1781
► PAGEBOY a boy, usually in livery, employed as part of a private household or (now more usually) in a hotel, club, or similar establishment as a messenger, porter, etc. → 1859
► WINTER BLOSSOMS the older, female, winter residents of a hotel → 1977 UK sl.
► WOOD-AND-WATER JOEY a hanger about hotels → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► YARD DOG a hotel security guard → 2007 African-American sl.
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