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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CALABOOSE

From Creole French, from Spanish calabozo dungeon, of unknown origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CALABOOSE

calaboose  [ˈkæləˌbuːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALABOOSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Calaboose is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CALABOOSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

calaboose

Prison

A prison or jail is a facility in which individuals are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment. The most common use of prisons is as part of a criminal justice system, in which individuals officially charged with or convicted of crimes are confined to a jail or prison until they are either brought to trial to determine their guilt or complete the period of incarceration they were sentenced to after being found guilty at their trial. Outside of their use for punishing civil crimes, authoritarian regimes also frequently use prisons and jails as tools of political repression to punish political crimes, often without trial or other legal due process; this use is illegal under most forms of international law governing fair administration of justice. In times of war or conflict, prisoners of war may also be detained in military prisons or prisoner of war camps, and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned in internment camps.

Definition of calaboose in the English dictionary

The definition of calaboose in the dictionary is a prison; jail.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CALABOOSE


Bruce
bruːs
caboose
kəˈbuːs
camboose
kæmˈbuːs
douce
duːs
Goes
ɡuːs
goose
ɡuːs
induce
ɪnˈdjuːs
introduce
ˌɪntrəˈdjuːs
juice
dʒuːs
juices
dʒuːs
loose
luːs
luce
luːs
moose
muːs
mousse
muːs
produce
prəˈdjuːs
reduce
rɪˈdjuːs
reproduce
ˌriːprəˈdjuːs
seduce
sɪˈdjuːs
spruce
spruːs
Zeus
zjuːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALABOOSE

calabash
calabash nutmeg
calabash tree
calabaza
calabogus
calabrese
Calabria
Calabrian
caladium
Calais
calaloo
calalu
calamanco
calamander
calamar
calamari
calamata olive
calami
calamine
calamine lotion

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALABOOSE

blue goose
Canada goose
choose
cut loose
footloose
golden goose
hang loose
have a screw loose
let loose
mongoose
Mother Goose
noose
on the loose
oose
papoose
pick and choose
play fast and loose
roose
the loose
vamoose

Synonyms and antonyms of calaboose in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «calaboose» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALABOOSE

Find out the translation of calaboose to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of calaboose from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «calaboose» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

calaboose
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calaboose
570 millions of speakers

English

calaboose
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

calaboose
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

calaboose
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calabouço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাজত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

taule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Calaboose
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kittchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

calaboose
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

calaboose
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Calaboose
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

calaboose
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

calaboose
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅलबॉझ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

küçük hapishane
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prigione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

calaboose
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

calaboose
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calaboose
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυλακή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

calaboose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

calaboose
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

calaboose
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of calaboose

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CALABOOSE»

The term «calaboose» is normally little used and occupies the 130.761 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CALABOOSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «calaboose» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «calaboose» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about calaboose

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALABOOSE»

Discover the use of calaboose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to calaboose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Calaboose epistles: stories
Set in the southern Appalachians, R. T. Smith's third collection of stories also inhabits that allegorical realm where the patterns of human travail are dramatized and played out endlessly.
R. T. Smith, 2009
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Candy Cane Calaboose
When Mike and Abbey both end up as inmates for charity in the Candy Cane Calaboose, something begins to change in Abbey's heart. Maybe her life has room for love after all. And maybe, just maybe, she has room for God as well.
Janet Spaeth, 2013
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The Valley's Legends & Legacies III
A. Calaboose. for. (jrul? In the early history of our valley, every community, big or small, had two essential buildings — a saloon and a jail. Indeed, it seemed the saloon made it necessary to have the jail. In many towns the jail had another, and  ...
Catherine Morison Rehart, 2000
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Prisoners and juvenile delinquents in the United States 1910
Graham Zavalla County Jail, Batesvillo > Municipal jails and workheuses. Austin City Jail, Aust hi > Beaumont City Jail, Beaumont.. lion tiam Calaboose, Bouhom Brenham t'it y Prison, Brenham. Cameron Calaboose, Cameron — Cleburne ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, Joseph Adna Hill, Reginald L. Brown, 1918
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The ordinances of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri: ...
Duties of the calaboose keeper. 2. Calaboose to be kept clean. 3. Keeper to provide prisoners with provisions. 4. Account to be kept of expenses, and statement made to auditor. § 5. No person to be released from calaboose without proper ...
Saint Louis (Mo.), Thomas C. Chester, 1856
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Ordinances Passed by the Board of Trustees of the ...
KEEPER OF THE CALABOOSE. Section 1. The corporation constable shall, by virtue of his office, be keeper of the calaboose. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of this officer to attend, when necessary, at the calaboose, and receive, and safely keep  ...
Saint Louis (Mo.)., 1852
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Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Edwin Nelson told: “I remember seeing John Cunningham, the constable for Diboll, go up to J erden's and rope Joe Bailey and drag him down the dirty dirt road with his car and place him in the hot calaboose and let him stay all day and night, ...
Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, 2010
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To Protect and Serve: History of the Knoxville Police ...
A Place to Take the Bad Guys The first calaboose or city jail used by the officers of the law w as located on Cumberland Street, just below the vacant lot adjacent to the Star Steam Laundry. It was there from about 1850 to 1854 when a change  ...
Sylvia D. Lynch, 2001
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Lone Star Travel Guide to Texas Hill Country
Known locally as the “Calaboose,” in the 1940s it was enlarged with a wooden addition and served as a USO center for black World War II servicemen. In later years, the Calaboose became a community recreation center. Almost torn down in ...
Richard Zelade, 2011
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Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That ...
In this passage from chapter 56 of Life on the Mississippi, a work published in 1833, Mark Twain uses the word calaboose, an informal synonym of jail from the South and West of the United States. Calaboose is pronounced (kal'a-bdbs'), and  ...
Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALABOOSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term calaboose is used in the context of the following news items.
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Southern Tier Cheers: FarmHouse grows local brews
... Tapas in Endicott, Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin, and in Owego at the Calaboose Grill, The Cellar, Tioga Trails and the Treadway Inn. «Press & Sun-Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
Jerry Douglas' Tribute To Bluegrass Legends Lester Flatt And Earl …
Some sweet day, they'll turn me loose from this dirty old calaboose. Oh, dear Mother, I'll come home some old day. Some old day - you wait for me and pray. «WYSO, Jun 15»
3
Documentary about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow to air June 22
Bonnie and the other gang member were jailed in the 1900s-era calaboose that ... Filming took place in Kemp at the calaboose and in the "Bottoms" near King's ... «CedarCreekLake.com, Jun 15»
4
Restoring The Jail House Rock
DELMAR, Iowa (KWQC) – Call it the calaboose. The slammer. The Clinton County landmark where John Pischke is restoring the jail house rock ... «KWQC-TV6, Jun 15»
5
An Outdoor View: Words too good to die
In the inevitable upskuddle over the painted lady, my hero is beaten like a rented mule and thrown in the calaboose. Just when this brouhaha ... «Kenai Peninsula Online, Jun 15»
6
Stay local with Strawberry Festival
The brewery, like many of its neighboring businesses, including Las Chicas Taqueria and Calaboose Grille, will be open throughout the festival ... «Press & Sun-Bulletin, Jun 15»
7
Calaboose Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth
The Senior Olympics was held at the Geronimo Activity Center, in Geronimo, and thanks to Judge Sheryl Sacthtleben of Seguin, who has ... «San Marcos Daily Record, Jun 15»
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News of 1886: Six graduate from St. Helena Grammar School
A new town jail, to replace the ancient “calaboose,” was constructed on the rear of the town hall lot (site of St. Helena Catholic School today). «Napa Valley Register, Jun 15»
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Out of Our Past: Tales of wild behavior in 1877
Mag Smith had just been sent to the calaboose for ten days for drunk and disorderly, and was released last night. Her friends — fast but few ... «Richmond, Jun 15»
10
Dad was a riverboat gambler and stern task master
Because of his rowdiness, our farm town's law had asked Daddy to leave town or go to the calaboose. Instead of coming home with Mother and ... «Murfreesboro Post, Jun 15»

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