cal|a|boose

cal|a|boose
cal|a|boose «KAL uh boos, KAL uh BOOS», noun.
Informal. a jail; prison: »

Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places, to be flogged (Harriet Beecher Stowe).

[American English < Spanish calabozo]

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