lockup houses
lockup houses is the plural of lockup house.
Meaning of lockup house
Noun
lockup house (plural lockup houses)
- A small house where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, especially where debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison.
- He kept a lock-up house in Great Earle Street, Soho, and, although by profession a tailor, he had fitted it up most elegantly as a tavern.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 143
- A lodging house where men are kept and forced to enlist in the army or navy.
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- Lockup houses is the plural of lockup house.
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