Big house
Big house noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: told harrowing stories of his years spent in the big house
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Synonyms for Big house
Prison is a synonym for big house in free topic. In some cases you can use "Prison" instead a noun phrase "Big house", when it comes to topics like penal institution.
Prison
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Rugrats, "The Big House" wherein Tommy is inside a daycare center that, much like the above example, looks and feels like a prison.
Source: Prison Episode -
Jimmy Two-Shoes has "Jimmy in the Big House" where Jimmy and Beezy try to bust Cerbee out of an animals-only prison by disguising themselves as pandas.
Source: Prison Episode -
Meanwhile Butch, who has nothing to lose, is plotting a jailbreak.The Big House is the Ur-Example of that sub-genre of film known as "prison flicks".
Source: Film / The Big House
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