chokey

American  

[chohk-ee] / ˈtʃoʊk i /

noun

• chokeys
  plural

1. a jail cell or similar place of confinement.

2. Indian English. a police station; a customs or toll station.

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adjective

1. choky.

chokey British  

/ ˈtʃəʊkɪ /

noun

1. a slang word for prison

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chokeys
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of chokey

C17: from Anglo-Indian, from Hindi caukī a shed or lockup

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Example Sentences

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"Makes a fellow feel kinda chokey, don't it, chum?" stammered Ted as he and Jack finally grabbed their bags and edged out through the campus gate.

From The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by James R. [pseud.] Driscoll

Course, by the time my three months was up, things was at the slackest; an' I could n't go straight back to a decent place, an' me fresh out o' chokey.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

Berlin offers you tea nowadays, but it is never good, and instead of freshly cut bread and butter they have horrid little chokey biscuits flavoured with vanilla.

From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

I fear, Mr Cutts," said Mandeville, in a deep and chokey voice, "that you have had too little experience of the vicissitudes of the world to appreciate our situation.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

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

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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