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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
house of correction |
| NOUN: | A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention: brig, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison. Informal : lockup, pen3. Slang : big house, can, clink, cooler, coop, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey1, slammer, stir2. Chiefly Regional : calaboose. See FREE. |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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