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big house en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(slang) Prison, jail.
He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
1948 November 15, “The End of Bad Boy Collins”, in TIME, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2009:
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(obsolete, slang) The workhouse.
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A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
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A plantation house
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.
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longhouse