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hospital
noun- jail US
An unabashed euphemism. - — American Speech, pp. 150–151, May 1959: “Notes on the cant of the telephone confidence man”
- in a smuggling operation, the place where the smuggled goods are picked up US
- — American Speech, p. 100, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the southwest”
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