calaboosen.
/kaləˈbuːz/ U.S.
The name, in New Orleans and adjacent parts of the U.S., for a common prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
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the hangman's budget1589
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1797 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour (1856) 289 [He threatened me] with the horrors of the Callibouse if I any longer disputed his authority.
1806 Amer. St. Papers, Ind. Affairs (1832) 727 Others..followed the merchants;..then the church and jail (callaboose), and now nothing of the old town is left.
1835 Col. Crockett's Tour 146 Sam he got off to the boat, but the Calaboos men got Joe.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Sam Slick, Hum. Nat. A large calaboose chock full of prisoners.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xv. 252 Send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places, to be flogged.
1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 649/2 The terrors of the calaboza, with its chains and whips and branding irons, were condensed into the French tri~syllabic Calaboose.
1908 S. E. White Riverman iii. 32 I'll just get along and bail the boys out of the village calaboose.
1926 J. Black You can't Win vii. 86 The big bum now led us out and to a near-by box car that served as a calaboose.
Derivatives
calaboose v. transitive to put in prison.
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1857 Cincinnati Commerc. (Bartlett) Col. Titus..was calaboosed for shooting at the porter of the Planters' House.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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