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calaboose

[kal-uh-boos, kal-uh-boos] / ˈkæl əˌbus, ˌkæl əˈbus /


NOUN
police station
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From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.

From Time Magazine Archive

English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this did no good, for he conjured up the dreadful picture of his father in the stifling calaboose on Shell Island.

From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Sainsbury, Noel

Even the prisoners in the calaboose had been released and provided with arms.

From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)




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