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Definition of the big house noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

the big house

noun

/ðə ˈbɪɡ haʊs/

/ðə ˈbɪɡ haʊs/

[singular] (US English, informal)

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- He got twenty years in the big house.
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