Meaning of drunk tank | Babel Free

Definitions

A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.

slang

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Examples

“[I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].”

“It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, “Won't see another one””

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