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big houses

big houses is the plural of big house.

Meaning of big house

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.

Questions about big houses

What is big houses the plural of?
Big houses is the plural of big house.

Words near big houses in the dictionary

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

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