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CALABOOSE Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic- uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Supposed to be a corruption of the Spanish calabozo, a dungeon. See Gilham v. Wells, 64 Ga. 194.

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