chokey
Americannoun
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chokeys
plural
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a jail cell or similar place of confinement.
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Indian English. a police station; a customs or toll station.
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chokey
C17: from Anglo-Indian, from Hindi caukī a shed or lockup
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It's like the Unwritten Law, don't you know, which you plead in America if you've done anything they want to send you to chokey for and you don't want to go.
From My Man Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
"So he must have been kidnapped or something after all, sir, or he would be in chokey now."
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones is impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey.
From The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"That would make me feel chokey," answered he.
From The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by George MacDonald
An' I got it on good authority that they chanced three years chokey for perjury, when they was dummyin' for M'Gregor; an' all they got for it was the fright hangin' over them.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Often the cost of installing the video equipment has to be recovered first, meaning that some chokeys will see no cash from video calls for years to come.
From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2015
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