noun
- jails or prisons
Usage: slang; plural of hoosegow
Examples
- The sheriff threatened to throw them all in the hoosegows.
- Several small-town hoosegows were overcrowded that weekend.
- He’d been in and out of hoosegows his whole adult life.
- The old Western had scenes of dusty hoosegows with iron bars.
- Local hoosegows couldn’t handle the influx of arrested protesters.