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big house

[ big hous ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. Usually the big house. a penitentiary.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of big house1

First recorded in 1815–25

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Example Sentences

In time they moved into a big house near New York, which they called Cherry Orchard.

Ahead of entering the Big House in Fort Worth, Texas, he told the press: “I will be a model prisoner as I was a model citizen.”

They are believed to have been staying in the big house while renovations are undertaken.

Just a bunch of us crashing in a big house and making a film in Katrina water.

Some value a big house and yard, while others cannot abide a city without a decent opera or good Thai food.

"Very well, then," and she found a seat where they were hidden by vines and the shade of the big house.

Surely there was going to be a party at the big house, or she would not be dressed so finely.

Diaz, the dead pigeon, and this guy McSweeney take it on the lam from the big house.

Well, her father established Peggy in a big house in St. James's—huge retinue of servants and so forth.

Just let the people up at the big house catch you pokin' around, and back you'll come faster'n ever you went.

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