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big top
noun
a prison, especially a maximum-security state prison US- He went straight to the big top, Rikers Island. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 76, 1955
- Fixer, I’m going to send those dirty bastards to the big-top for murder-one. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 306, 1969
- This killing was witnessed by twelve hundred cons during the noon meal at the Big Top’s messhal[.] — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 21, 1970
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 20, 1976
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