Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) cheap, tawdry, in bad taste; als as n.

1957		(con. 1943) A. Myrer Big War 263: You get it infected you’re liable to be in a whorehouse of a fix.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 201: Chemo stretched out on the whorehouse sofa.
1994		J. Wambaugh Finnegan’s Week 65: You little whorehouse louse!