Word.ws English Dictionary

calabooses

calabooses is the plural of calaboose.

Meaning of calaboose

Noun

calaboose (plural calabooses)

  1. (Australia, US, dialectal) A prison or jail/gaol.
    • The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 56, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC

Questions about calabooses

What is calabooses the plural of?
Calabooses is the plural of calaboose.

Words near calabooses in the dictionary

  1. Calabcab
  2. Calabi-Yau manifold
  3. Calabi-Yau space
  4. Calabnigan
  5. calaboose
  6. calabooses
  7. calabozo
  8. calabozos
  9. calabrasella
  10. calabrese
  11. calabreses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: calabooses (page history and authors); calaboose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “calabooses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/calabooses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.