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hoosegow

[ UK /hˈuːsɪɡˌa‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. slang for a jail

How To Use hoosegow In A Sentence

  • While in the hoosegow, he earned a college degree and decided that he always wanted to be a writer.
  • With some cells open, my brethren and I are allowed freedom to wander inside the confines of this red-walled hoosegow.
  • Selena, mother of two junior high schoolers, has drawn the line against television, and it's landed both her kids in the hoosegow.
  • Jackson and his men were here to bust Shorty out of the hoosegow.
  • They talked about old friends, old enemies, who's alive, who's dead, and who's in the hoosegow.
  • Austin po-po haul MSFT Zune guerilla marketer to hoosegow Boing Boing
  • Houseboat doesn't go to the hoosegow, but it does remain on probation for trying to pull the wool over the court's eyes.
  • Both Alcatraz Island and The Last Gangster told the story of a racketeer sent to the Rock on tax evasion charges (as was Capone) who learns the hard way that this isn't any old hoosegow.
  • She should be thrown in the hoosegow and made to swallow the key.
  • The Twentymans are a trio of hardcore armed robbers with a dozen bank jobs to their credit, currently serving time in a friendly medium-security hoosegow for their latest misdeed.
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