Meaning & use
Chokey
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British informal: prison or jail.
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He spent six months in chokey for petty theft.
The old slang term 'chokey' still turns up in British crime dramas.
A note on using this word
Believed to derive from Hindi/Urdu 'chauki,' meaning a police station or guardhouse, brought into British slang during the colonial era in India.
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