calaboose

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A prison or jail/gaol.
 * 2) * 1937, Langston Hughes, When the Jack Hollers; or Careless Love: A Negro-Folk Comedy in Three Acts, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5. The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Leslie Catherine Sanders (ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, pp. 392-3,
 * : Aunt Billie, I thought you were in jail! : I was, but I got tired of that little ole privy-sized jail, so I jest turned it over and come out! : (Still unbelieving) And you turned the calaboose over?
 * 1) * 1937, Langston Hughes, When the Jack Hollers; or Careless Love: A Negro-Folk Comedy in Three Acts, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5. The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Leslie Catherine Sanders (ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, pp. 392-3,
 * : Aunt Billie, I thought you were in jail! : I was, but I got tired of that little ole privy-sized jail, so I jest turned it over and come out! : (Still unbelieving) And you turned the calaboose over?