That shop is plain a clip joint!

那家商店纯粹是在敲竹杠。

The woman said angrily that the store was a clip joint.

那女人生气地说这商店是专门敲顾客竹杠的地方。

A bottle of local beer costs ten dollars at that clip joint.

本地的啤酒在那黑店里卖到十元一瓶。

Last week on Clip joint, swanstep saluted faces and scenes that have launched a thousand drips.

上周的Clip joint栏目，swanstep向下雨的场景和演员致敬。

Clip-joint owners risk being sent to prison for demanding money with menaces. They escape that fate because customers are loth to give statements to the police.

这些高消费场所得业主们冒着进监狱的风险向顾客勒索钱财，但由于顾客们通常懒得去找警察，所以他们能逃过牢狱之灾。