Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A jail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U. S. western slang a jail.
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- noun US, slang A
jail .
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- noun slang for a jail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Watching a bunch of them get carted off to the hoosegow is the best “reconciliation” I can think of. henry Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Ricks Calls for Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2009
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"hoosegow" by some people called "the Dark Riders," and their boss is transporting him to a mysterious installation.
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"hoosegow" by some people called "the Dark Riders," and their boss is transporting him to a mysterious installation.
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Off Ned goes to the hoosegow, where he becomes a popular prisoner and gets released early, then meanders back to the organic farm he shared with his girlfriend, the loathsome Janet a great Kathryn Hahn, on the assumption that life, as he knew it, will resume.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011
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After more than a decade of failure or renegade moonlighting (including a spell as a boxer), Rourke re-enters that well-lit hoosegow, Hollywood.
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Do you love your hobby enough to spend a night in the hoosegow for it?
Why LARPing’s OK, but playing an RPG will get you arrested 2009
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If someone threatens, harasses or assaults you there are legal remedies, some of which can cost the perpetrators a hefty price or time in the hoosegow.
Chuck Thies: Bicycling and Equal Protection Chuck Thies 2011
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And a newspaper report - New York Times - detailed a meeting we wish we'd been invited to, in which MTV suits regaled themselves with speculation as to which of them could wind up in the hoosegow if future episodes aired as delivered to MTV by the producers -- which is sure to boost MTV's coveted 12-24 year old guy numbers by - oh wait, 12-24-year-old guys don't read newspapers.
H&R Block shocked to learn its ad ran in MTV's sexy teen series "Skins" Lisa de Moraes 2011
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If someone threatens, harasses or assaults you there are legal remedies, some of which can cost the perpetrators a hefty price or time in the hoosegow.
Chuck Thies: Bicycling and Equal Protection Chuck Thies 2011
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The Raj is charged with enough counts of insider trading to spend 20 years in the hoosegow.
Les Leopold: Is Corruption on Wall Street All in the Eyes of the Beholder? Les Leopold 2011
missanthropist commented on the word hoosegow
Also slang for public rest room, or outhouse :D !
c. 1930's
July 16, 2008