booby hatch

Smoking half a joint wasn’t necessarily a one-way ticket to the booby hatch, and a den, I was gently told, was not the same as a basement.

And how much luggage was she able to bring with her to the booby hatch, as the matron calls it?

Its beam gives safety, and also minimises the inconvenience of the centre-board case in the cabin, and a high booby hatch would give head-room. 

Cushner led the way forward to the ornate forecastle and Stirling glanced down through the open booby hatch, to where a row of bunks lined each side of the ship.

I made my way to the cuddy front, and just as I halted beside a group of women at the booby hatch, James Back came to the door of the saloon.