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Definition |
a prison or jail |
Examples |
1) I don't want to end up in the
big house, so I'm staying out of
trouble. 2) He spent ten years in the big
house before he was finally released on parole. |
Etymology |
The prison was designed with the idea
of housing a lot of prisoners. |
Synonyms |
the clink, the slammer |
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