trap house

or trap·house

[ trap-hous ]

noun
  1. Slang. a place where illicit drugs are bought, sold, or used.

  2. a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.

Origin of trap house

1
First recorded in 1940–45 (trapshooting shelter); and in 2005–10 (place to buy drugs, with reference to drugs as an inescapable “trap”); trap1 + house

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