Green’s Dictionary of Slang

SOOB n.

(N.Z. gay) a Small Owner Operated Business/Brothel, which employs four or fewer private sex workers and thus does not qualify as a brothel and needs no license.

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[NZ]W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 76: Today, most privates work out of a SOOB. This is a recent acronym for Small Owner Operated Business/Brothel .