love hotel

Meaning

Noun

  • A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.

Origin

  • , from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

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