no-tell motel

English

Etymology

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

Pronunciation

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Noun

no-tell motel (plural no-tell motels)

  1. (slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
    Synonyms: hot-sheet motel, no-tell hotel; see also Thesaurus:love hotel
    • 2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:
      There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.
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