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lockup
A building or room for the temporary detention of prisoners by police.
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Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'?
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
) Then he remembered how he had spent a night in the lockup for disorderly conduct in the street.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The fight concerned a trunk and ended by the doctor's being escorted to the vil- lage lockup.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
 
 
 
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