massage parlor

noun

1. a commercial establishment providing massages.

2. a commercial establishment providing sexual services under the guise of offering massages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of massage parlor¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

In the early ’70s, he opposed the federal government’s efforts to integrate private religious schools, saying, “In some states it’s easier to open a massage parlor than to open a Christian school.”

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In 2019, Kraft originally received a misdemeanor charge that he paid for sex at a Florida massage parlor.

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“Jack Warner, when he ran the studio, privatized the first floor. That was a massage parlor that he had beneath his office.”

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He was out on federal probation for a narcotics conviction when he robbed the Torrance massage parlor, investigators said.

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The teenager was lying next to his bloodied sword when the police captured him outside a Toronto massage parlor where one woman had been stabbed to death and another seriously injured.

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