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Examples of hoosegow
hoosegow
Jones into the hoosegow on May 7, May 9, June 23, June 27 and July 2 of this year.
From the philly.com
Ace served three years in the hoosegow after taking the fall for someone else.
From the suntimes.com
Is the young woman in the portable hoosegow really the Black Witch?
From the dailyherald.com
But the hoosegow voter push raised the eyebrows of some Republicans.
From the bostonherald.com
Maybe that's why I didn't feel bad when Dad shipped her off to the hoosegow to score political points.
From the suntimes.com
The Americans are already at each other's throats and a few even get tossed into a bamboo hoosegow.
From the sfgate.com
I find it hard to deny, however, that a heightened fear of going to the hoosegow changed corporate behavior.
From the forbes.com
So off to the hoosegow Keyser will go.
From the edition.cnn.com
He winds up in the hoosegow for illegal practices, but he still takes down his mentor the great Gekko by wearing a wire for the cops.
From the dailyherald.com
- Slang for a jail
- A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. ...
- Jail, from the Spanish juzgado, meaning courthouse.
- A slang term for "jail", from Spanish juzgao, variant of standard Spanish juzgado. Alteration of pronunciation and spelling by law of Hobson-Jobson.
- Jail (Knockover, 354)
