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calaboose
noun
a jail, especially a local one US, 1792
From the Spanish calabazo (dungeon).- [T]hey’ll find you and kick you out and you’ll wind up in a Mexican calaboose boy. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 101, 1958
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 34, 1982
- Jail, man! The fuckin calaboose. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 51, 1993
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