Usually means: Small jail for temporary confinement.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word calaboose:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. calaboose: Merriam-Webster
  2. calaboose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calaboose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calaboose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Calaboose, calaboose: Wordnik
  6. calaboose: Wiktionary
  7. calaboose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. calaboose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. calaboose: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Calaboose, calaboose: Dictionary.com
  11. calaboose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Calaboose (film), Calaboose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Calaboose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. calaboose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Calaboose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. CALABOOSE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. calaboose: FreeDictionary.org
  18. calaboose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calaboose: A Word A Day
  2. calaboose: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calaboose, calaboose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. calaboose: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (calaboose)

▸ noun:  (US, Australia, dialect) A prison or jail/gaol.

Similar:
gaolhouse, caboose, coop, quod, saltbox, jailhouse, cookroom, camp, jailcell, jail, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release, emancipation

Adjectives:
old, local, little, long, ramshackle, weak, filthy, dirty, american, south, nearest


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Similar:
gaolhouse, caboose, coop, quod, saltbox, jailhouse, cookroom, camp, jailcell, jail, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release, emancipation

Adjectives:
old, local, little, long, ramshackle, weak, filthy, dirty, american, south, nearest



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