calaboose

Example Sentences

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“By that last part, he is referring to another slang term, ‘cally,’ which is a police station, short for “calaboose,” derived from the Spanish “calabozo,” Barrett clarified.

From Los Angeles Times

And can someone catapult Steve Bannon into the calaboose already?

From Slate

Yet for many Americans, especially younger ones, going home for Thanksgiving is a weekend in the calaboose.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I picked up a side of the sheet and walked right in the calaboose with the men. I walked in the calaboose carrying a rotten dead Negro.”

From Literature

He said, “When I passed the calaboose, some men had just fished him out of the pond. He was wrapped in a sheet, all rolled up like a mummy, then a white man walked over and pulled the sheet off. The man was on his back but the white man stuck his foot under the sheet and rolled him over on the stomach.”

From Literature