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big house

noun big houses · bighouse

  1. slang Prison, jail. He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
  2. obsolete, slang The workhouse.
  3. A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
  4. A plantation house
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.

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@misc{big_house_2026,
  title = {big house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/big%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}