massage parlor

1. 1.

   a place where illicit sex is available under the guise of therapeutic massage

   Broaderwhorehouse
2. 2.

   a business establishment that offers therapeutic massage

   Broaderplace of business

Questions about massage parlor

What does massage parlor mean?

massage parlor means "a place where illicit sex is available under the guise of therapeutic massage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is massage parlor a common word?

massage parlor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.