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hoosegow (iou)



hoosegow noun. US slang. E20.
[S. Amer. or Mexican Spanish juzgao = juzgado tribunal from Latin judicatum pa. pple of judicare JUDGE verb.]
A prison.
W. Wharton I found a corpse..I thought..I might spend the night in the hoosegow.