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Rookery
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
"It was a rookery which had never been raided by the hunters, and in consequence the seals were mild-tempered and at the same time unafraid."
- 2 a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) wordnet
- 3 A crowded tenement. broadly
"Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery."
- 4 A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city. British, broadly, historical
"The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime."
- 5 That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns. obsolete, slang
Etymology
From rook + -ery, 1725.
See also for "rookery"
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