Sing Sing

[ sing sing ]

/ ˈsɪŋ ˌsɪŋ /

noun

the state prison at Ossining, New York.

former name of Ossining.

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Examples from the Web for sing sing

And you think that the disgrace of having committed suicide will cling to him in after life, so to say—in Sing-Sing?
Marion Darche|F. Marion Crawford
My object was to see if I could get a sing-sing that had bounded away at our approach.
The Land of Footprints|Stewart Edward White
The sing-sing leaped high in the air and plunged over the edge of the bench.
The Land of Footprints|Stewart Edward White
Paying scant heed to the Cubs, old Miquel carried on a sing-sing monologue in a tongue the boys could not understand.
Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face|Mildred A. Wirt

All we found were two rhino, some sing-sing, a heard of impalla, and a tremendous thirst.
The Land of Footprints|Stewart Edward White

British Dictionary definitions for sing sing

Sing Sing

noun

a prison in New York State, in Ossining

Word Origin for Sing Sing

variant of Ossining

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