big house

[big hous]

noun

Slang.

1. Usually the big house a penitentiary.

Word History and Origins

Origin of big house¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

Macksoud, who sold that big house after just 18 months, said she has “worked really hard” to understand how money contributes to her own happiness.

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Macksoud, who sold that big house after just 18 months, said she has “worked really hard” to understand how money contributes to her own happiness.

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Denise Yarmlak, who is 69, single and didn’t want to live alone, bought a big house in Nevada with a friend.

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Quickly built by amateur developers working off a handful of construction drawings, the wood-framed triplexes do the same thing for their neighborhoods today that they did then: provide a decent and affordable stepping stone between the city’s dim, shared quarters and a big house in the ’burbs.

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The boxer, whose profile skyrocketed when he went on Love Island in 2019, is sitting in his self-described "big" house, alone.

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