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Another word for coop

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, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey¹, slammer, stir². (Chiefly Regional) calaboose. See free

verb

To confine within a limited area.

In or up: cage, enclose, fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen², shut in, shut up, wall (in or up). See free

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She went to the coop first and watered the chickens.
She stopped at the coop door and frowned.
"It looks like our Mr. Cleary flew the coop," Fred said reluctantly.
She leaned against the chicken coop and stared down at the house.
In Java the new-born babe is placed in a hen-coop, and the mother makes a clucking noise, as if she were a hen, to attract the child's soul.

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