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词组 hoosegow
释义 hoosegow
noun
a jail or prison US, 1908
A corruption of the Spanish juzgado (court or tribunal).
  • [I]t would be the happiest day of my life if I can find out she really wasn’t married to him and put her in the damned hoosegow for fraud[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, pp. 82–83, 1968
  • “If they catch you, they’ll put you in the hoosegow,” he’d tell us[.] — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 79, 1972
  • The hit just ordered on the hooker in the hoosegow proved that. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 98, 1990
  • This kid got his load on, staggered out of there with his piece like he’s in Tombstone Arizona and now he’s in the hoosegow — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 382, 1992
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