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Big house

noun, slang

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  1. 1
    Prison, jail. slang

    "He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes."

  2. 2
    The workhouse. obsolete, slang
  3. 3
    A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
  4. 4
    A plantation house
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.

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