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calaboose

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


NOUN
police station
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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

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

They were happy-go-lucky young blades; rather badly in need of a bath and a barber, but they sang lustily in the calaboose and ate heartily and with much experience of prison fare.

From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White

You gotta go the whole hog or you'll wind up in the calaboose.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White




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