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country club
noun- a minimum security, comfortable prison generally reserved for corporate and banking criminals US
- Once, when jailed briefly in the early 50’s, Costello was sent to a Federal country club near Flint, Michigan[.] — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 34, 1960
- Chino, California’s “country club” prison, yesterday had its first murder. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 18, 18 July 1972
- I should be going to one of those country-club joints like where they sent those Watergate assholes[.] — Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky, p. 13, 1988
- anything that appears to be relatively comfortable and undemanding US
- His instructors had spoken of some precincts that were “country clubs”–in the quieter residential sections of the city[.] — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 58, 1973
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