hoosegow
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
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- 8
Definition of hoosegow
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(US, slang)A jail.
“There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that.”
“Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, divided the participants at random into ‘prisoners’ and ‘guards,’ and even got the Palo Alto police to arrest the prisoners and haul them to the campus hoosegow.”
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Etymology
From informal spoken Spanish juzgao, variant of standard Spanish juzgado (“court, courthouse”). Alteration of pronunciation and spelling by law of Hobson-Jobson.
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