chokey
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of chokey
C17: from Anglo-Indian, from Hindi caukī a shed or lockup
Example Sentences
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The descent from Buxa is gradual at first and not unpicturesque: after passing a small chokey about half a mile from Buxa, sandstone of a coarse nature commences.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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 Furphy, Joseph
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 Furphy, Joseph
He's ugly and huffy, and smoky, and stuffy, And pokey, and chokey, and black as my hat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
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