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big house

big house noun: prison, jail.

Noun

big house (plural big houses)

  1. (slang) Prison, jail.
    • He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.1948 November 15, “The End of Bad Boy Collins”, in TIME, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2009
  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.

big house meaning in Kannada

big house in Kannada

ಪೆರ್ಮನೆ, ಹೆಮ್ಮನೆ

Forms of big house

pluralbig houses
alternative formbighouse

Questions about big house

What does big house mean?
Big house means prison, jail.
What is big house in Kannada?
Big house in Kannada is ಪೆರ್ಮನೆ, ಹೆಮ್ಮನೆ. See Big house meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is big house?
Big house is a noun.
What is the plural of big house?
The plural of big house is big houses.

Words near big house in the dictionary

  1. big history
  2. big hitter
  3. big hitters
  4. big honkin'
  5. Big Horn County
  6. big house
  7. big house, little house, back house, barn
  8. big houses
  9. big if
  10. big if true
  11. big ifs

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