Sentence:  Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more <WSD>creep joints</WSD> and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.