Word.ws English Dictionary

hoosgow

hoosgow is the alternative form of hoosegow.

Meaning of hoosegow

Noun

hoosegow (plural hoosegows)

  1. (US, slang) A jail.
    • There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 424

Forms of hoosgow

pluralhoosgows

Questions about hoosgow

What is hoosgow the alternative form of?
Hoosgow is the alternative form of hoosegow.

Words near hoosgow in the dictionary

  1. hoosegow
  2. hoosegows
  3. Hooser
  4. Hoosers
  5. hooses
  6. hoosgow
  7. hoosgows
  8. hoosh
  9. hooshed
  10. hooshes
  11. hooshing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hoosgow (page history and authors); hoosegow (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: “hoosgow.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoosgow. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.