Synonyms of big houses

big houses

noun

plural of big house, slang

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

told harrowing stories of his years spent in the big house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• penitentiaries
• prisons
• brigs
• bastilles
• jailhouses
• quods
• bridewells
• pens
• tolbooths
• coolers
• coops
• stockades
• hoosegows
• jugs
• calabooses
• lockups
• hocks
• guardrooms
• bull pens
• pokeys
• cages
• tanks
• cans
• clinks
• stirs
• nicks
• joints
• slams
• prison camps
• cells
• dungeons
• labor camps
• concentration camps
• slammers
• holds
• work camps
• wards
• reform schools
• holes
• training schools
• guardhouses
• hulks
• stalags
• keeps
• blocks
• glasshouses
• gulags
• reformatories
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides