calaboose
/ˌkaləˈbuːs
/noun US informal
A prison.The white man then forced Bailey to help lift the dead man into a calaboose full of black prisoners....
- In the latest indignity, Hittner ordered Fastow to report to the downtown Federal Detention Center instead of the more upscale calaboose he'd requested.
- The calaboose inmate was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp.
Origin
Late 18th century: from black French calabouse, from Spanish calabozo 'dungeon'.
- ringing loft
- ringingly
- ringing tone
- ringing-up
- ring in one's ears (or head)
- ring joint
- ring junction
- ring keeper
- ring-key
- ring knocker
- ring kop
- ring laser
- onesteead
- one-step
- one step ahead
- one step forward and two steps back
- one-stop
- one-stress
- one-suiter
- one swallow does not make a summer
- one-tail
- one-tailed
- one-teacher school
- one thing after another
- one thing and another