Lockup
Lockup noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups
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Tolbooth and lockup are semantically related. (Scottish) In some cases you can use "Tolbooth" instead a noun "Lockup".
Tolbooth
Tolbooth noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: Deacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh
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Tolbooth and Lockup. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lockup/tolbooth
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