Bronx Opera House noun the Bronx jail US A conflation of “singing” as in “informing” with opera.
Leo Kerouac told Jack he had disgraced the family name and refused to bail out his son, who was invited to be a guest in the Bronx jail, known as the Bronx Opera House, where the stool pigeons sang arias. — Ted Morgan, LiteraryOutlaw, p. 107, 1988