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
But it’s the only stone calaboose on the ranch.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
He had long since become disgusted with gold-hunting; and the home-sickness, which came over him in the calaboose, continued after he got out.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George
