big house
Prison, in slang
Big house is slang for prison, especially a state or federal penitentiary: He spent ten years in the big house.
The term dates to early 20th-century American criminal slang and carries a slightly old-fashioned or ironic tone today.
Separately, big house can simply describe a large residence: They bought that big house on the hill.
Facility for convicted criminals
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- inmateConfined facility resident
- convictJailed offender after trial
bars · solitary · parole · contraband · lockup · yard · guard · shank
Property and grounds
- chateauFrench country mansion
- villaStately country residence
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- palazzoItalian grand residence
castle · manse · hall · palatial · stately · grandeur · luxurious · opulent
Having generous interior space
ample · cavernous · vast · sprawling · square footage · high ceilings · open floor plan · walk-in closets
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- status symbolItem showing rank
investment · assets · real estate · property value · upscale · exclusive · gated community · country club
penitentiary
Facility for convicted criminals
convict · bars · solitary · parole · contraband · lockup · yard · guard · shank · sentence
estate
Property and grounds
palazzo · castle · manse · hall · palatial · stately · grandeur · luxurious · opulent · ancestral
roomy
Having generous interior space
wide · ample · cavernous · vast · sprawling · square footage · high ceilings · open floor plan · walk-in closets · great room
affluence
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
status symbol · investment · assets · real estate · property value · upscale · exclusive · gated community · country club · nouveau riche
multigenerational
Involving multiple age cohorts
- extended familyRelatives beyond parents, siblings
- kidsYoung human offspring
- bedroomsRooms for sleeping
playroom · guest rooms · in-laws · gathering · holidays · reunions · nursery · bunk beds · homework · backyard
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Antebellum Southplantation, cotton kingdom, overseer, slave quarters, plantation owner
- noir slanggumshoe, femme fatale, private eye, shamus, peeper
- plantationcotton field, sugar cane, tobacco barn, slave quarters, overseer
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
big housesmall house
Compact residential dwelling
little house · tiny house · cottage · shack · cabin
big househovel
Wretched small dwelling
shack · shanty · slum dwelling · tenement · project housing
big housecramped quarters
Insufficiently spacious living area
tiny space · tight quarters · confined space · hole in the wall · sardine can
big, house, housing, houses, bigger, biggest, bigly, housework, housed