calaboose

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prison or jail/gaol. Australia,US,dialectal
    — The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'

词形变化

calabooses plural

词源

From Cajun French calabousse, from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calabozo.
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