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noun
(Slang)

A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention:

brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison. (Informal) lockup, pen3. (Slang) big house, can, clink, cooler, coop, joint, jug, pokey1, slammer, stir2. (Chiefly Regional) calaboose. See free

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