hoosegow
Old Western jail
A hoosegow is a jail or prison.
The word comes from Spanish *juzgado* (a courtroom or tribunal) and entered American English through the Southwest borderlands.
It's informal and somewhat old-fashioned, with a humorous or folksy tone: They threw him in the hoosegow for the night.
Sharp metallic ring
Confinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- custodyProtective care or control
detention · imprisonment · cellblock · correctional · reformatory · inmate · convict · prisoner
County's chief officer
- outlawFugitive from justice
- marshalArrange in proper order
- desperadoBold, reckless outlaw
- banditArmed roadside thief
frontier · territory · gunslinger · lawman · wanted poster · six-shooter · stagecoach · hangman
clink
Sharp metallic ring
calaboose · cooler · jug · can · stir · pen · brig · stockade · gaol · guardhouse
prison
Confinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- lockupTemporary detention facility
custody · detention · imprisonment · cellblock · correctional · reformatory · inmate · convict · prisoner · detainee
sheriff
County's chief officer
bandit · frontier · territory · gunslinger · lawman · wanted poster · six-shooter · stagecoach · hangman · gallows
- confinement cellsjail cell, prison cell, holding cell, detention cell, solitary cell
- noir slanggumshoe, femme fatale, private eye, shamus, peeper
- prison slangshank, shiv, yard, cellie, commissary
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
hoosegowfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free world · outside · out · civilian life