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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hoosegow /ˈhuːsgaʊ/

▶noun N. Amer. informal a prison.

– origin early 20th cent.: via Latin Amer. Sp. from Sp. juzgado ‘tribunal’.

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