What does hoosegow mean?
Hoosegow means (US, slang) A jail..
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/ˈhuːsɡaʊ/ · noun
(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.
Use hoosegow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hoosegow means (US, slang) A jail..
Common synonyms include hoosgow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that.
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