hoosegow

Example Sentences

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See who got away with their ill-gotten gains and who got sent to the hoosegow in the new docuseries “Super Heists.”

From Los Angeles Times

He was tackled by a gendarme in the paint on the 76ers’ half of the court, unceremoniously picked up and hustled down a Capital One Arena tunnel and, hopefully, to the nearest hoosegow.

From Washington Post

Even a picture of me holding the very Trump piñata head that currently put me in the digital hoosegow.

From Los Angeles Times

Nearly a year after the arrest and fishy jailhouse suicide of wealthy serial sex abuser Epstein, his longtime friend and alleged procurer Maxwell has followed him into the hoosegow.

From Washington Post

More volunteers go undercover in the big house, the hoosegow, the slammer, the gray-bar hotel, the stony lonesome in new episodes of “60 Days In.”

From Los Angeles Times