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Queer ken

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prison. UK, dated

    "Fact is, / she’ll end up in the charpering carsey / of Jennifer Justice. What is this / queer ken she’s in?"

Etymology

From queer (“weird; odd”) + ken (“house”).

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