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bighouse

bighouse is the alternative form 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.

Forms of bighouse

pluralbighouses

Origin of bighouse

From big + house.

Questions about bighouse

What is bighouse the alternative form of?
Bighouse is the alternative form of big house.

Words near bighouse in the dictionary

  1. bigheartedness
  2. bighorn
  3. Bighorn Mountains
  4. bighorn sheep
  5. bighorns
  6. bighouse
  7. bighouses
  8. bight
  9. Bight of Benin
  10. Bight of Biafra
  11. bighted

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