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calaboose

[kal-uh-boos, kal-uh-boos] / ˈkæl əˌbus, ˌkæl əˈbus /


NOUN
police station
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.

From Time Magazine Archive

English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry.

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But this did no good, for he conjured up the dreadful picture of his father in the stifling calaboose on Shell Island.

From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Sainsbury, Noel

By the time you get there, she’ll be in the calaboose.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.




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