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tolboothsnounpl. of tolboothScottish a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodyDeacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, cans, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, hocks, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, jails, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pens, pokeys(slang), prisons, quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides |