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Choky

noun
1.
British slang (dated) for a prison.  Synonym: chokey.






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"Choky" Quotes from Famous Books



... a box and shipped to Kentucky, because, after all, Molly might not return to Wellington. Who could tell what the fates had in store? Then came the good-byes. There were tears in their eyes and little choky sounds in their voices as they kissed and ...
— Molly Brown's Senior Days • Nell Speed

... and thousands of people, and soon the fame of it spread to every country in Europe, and it was translated into at least twenty languages. And even today when the work it was meant to do is done, hundreds of boys and girls still laugh at Topsy and feel very choky indeed over the fate of poor ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



Words linked to "Choky" :   prison, chokey, tight, prison house



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