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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

Pierre Lafitte was arrested in his blacksmith-shop and confined without bail in the calaboose.

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

But it’s the only stone calaboose on the ranch.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)




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