Word of the Day

April 7, 2014

dhhanni

Calaboose is a noun meaning jail especially a local jail.

In the early ’60s The Friendship Nine, a group of local college students arrested for staging a sit-in at a local restaurant, spent a month in the calaboose rather than pay a fine as a way of protesting segregation.

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