crowbar hotel
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (slang) Jail.
- 1981, Watson Parker, Deadwood: The Golden Years, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 080328702X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=r7WHjkq9g7gC&pg=PA287&dq=%22crowbar+hotel%22&sig=ZtZZA4qn_AMfIotDSmBeji6gqeU#PPA190,M1 pg. 190]:
- Many unfortunate suckers, finding themselves losers, even in an honest game, became obstreperous, and the services of the bouncer, or even of a resident gunhand, might be required to pacify them, after which the complainant would be hauled to the crowbar hotel to recover enough of his equanimity to appear peacefully before a justice of the peace.
- 1983 Oct. 21, Orland French, "Gnomes grind out the gems," The Globe and Mail (Canada):
- Correctional Services Minister Nick Leluk often refers to his "guests" in his chain of "hotels". What do these guests have to do to earn their keep in Ontario's crowbar hotels?
- 2007 Aug. 22, Dave Perkins, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090609004132/http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/248680 NFL will paper over Vick scandal]," Toronto Star (Canada):
- If Vick gets 18 months in the crowbar hotel, as speculated, that essentially means two seasons away from the NFL.
- 1981, Watson Parker, Deadwood: The Golden Years, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 080328702X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=r7WHjkq9g7gC&pg=PA287&dq=%22crowbar+hotel%22&sig=ZtZZA4qn_AMfIotDSmBeji6gqeU#PPA190,M1 pg. 190]:
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