Calaboose
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic-uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Supposed to be a corruption of the Spanish calabozo, a dungeon.
See Gilham v. Wells, 64 Ga. 194.