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  1. (context, US, slang) A jail.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:
    • :There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the for just whistlin that.
Etymology: From Latin American juzgao, variant of standard Spanish (term, juzgado, , court, courthouse).

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