calaboose
Example Sentences
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English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Damned if I know; but those bright boys have evidently heaved us into a calaboose of some kind!"
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
They begin to rattle the keys of the calaboose the minute I get off’n the train.”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
