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Meaning of big house | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Prison, jail.
    slang
  2. The workhouse.
    obsolete, slang
  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.

Equivalents

Bosanski bajbok buhara
Hrvatski bajbok buhara
Српски bajbok buhara

Examples

“He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

big house, little house, back house, barn big if big iron Big Island Big Jacks Creek Big Jim and the twins

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