Sing Sing
[sing sing]
- the state prison at Ossining, New York.
- former name of Ossining.
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My object was to see if I could get a sing-sing that had bounded away at our approach.
The Land of FootprintsStewart Edward White
The sing-sing had evidently found his way over the edge of the bench.
The Land of FootprintsStewart Edward White
Therefore, the sing-sing must round the hill, and not cross the stream.
The Land of FootprintsStewart Edward White
At her desk at headquarters Nora found a memorandum of four letters to be written,—three to men in the prison at Sing-Sing.
FlintMaud Wilder Goodwin
After dinner that first day we went to the village where the “sing-sing” was to take place.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western PacificFelix Speiser
Sing Sing
- a prison in New York State, in Ossining
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Word Origin
variant of Ossining
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