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big house
noun- a prison US, 1913
Usually follows “the”. - “You won’t get to Pontiac this time,” one guy said. “Hell no, he’ll make the Big House with this one.” — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 88, 1946
- “Strebhouse and Stevens spent a stretch in the big house,” I said. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 111, 1947
- [M]any honest people with whom he mingled socially–came out of the Big House, the top mobsters called a huddle with him and advised him to retire. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 172, 1950
- “Don’t worry, Judge,” he said. “The minute we got outside, one of the kids shook hands with the other and said, ‘Hey, we finally made it–the Big House!’” — San Francisco Examiner, 22 February 1956
- In fact, their fate was often worse. Suicide. Dope addiction and the d.t.’s. The big house and the nuthouse. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 24, 1963
- A California nabber took me, white slavery was my charge / convicted me and in twenty-four hours in the bighouse I did lodge. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 151, 1965
- As the gates of the Atlanta big house swung open, I flippantly remarked to the guard on duty: “So long, Jim.” — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 137, 1970
- “Sock both of the bastards in the Hole!” the warden growled, looking at Buddha as though he were a fellow warden, someone who understood the problems of managing the Big House. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 167, 1985
- Chazz, I don’t want to go to the Big House! — Airheads, 1994
- Zeke gave me a quick matchbook education on how to live and exist in the big house. — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 197, 2000
- I should [...] ask him in every tiny detail all about his adventures in the big house. But I did that the last time he came out[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 39, 2001
- a crown court UK
- I was weighed off (sentenced) at the big house[.] — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 27, 1996
- a mental hospital; any large, impersonal, threatening institution UK, 1984
Extended from an earlier usage (a workhouse).
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