calaboose

== English == === Etymology === From Cajun French calabousse, from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calabozo. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌkæləˈbuːs/ === Noun === calaboose (plural calabooses) (US, Australia, dialect) A prison or jail/gaol. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prison, Thesaurus:jail 1937, Langston Hughes, When the Jack Hollers; or Careless Love: A Negro-Folk Comedy in Three Acts, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5. The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Leslie Catherine Sanders (ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, pp. 392-3, Bogator: Aunt Billie, I thought you were in jail!Aunt Billie: I was, but I got tired of that little ole privy-sized jail, so I jest turned it over and come out! […] Bogator: (Still unbelieving) And you turned the calaboose over? ==== Descendants ==== Tok Pisin: kalabus ==== Translations ====