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Meanings of drunk tank in English

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Usage of drunk tank in English
1
Got a good old boy in the drunk tank that needs springing.
The cold room
2
They'd put him in the drunk tank for twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
11/22/63
3
And Parkins Gillespie had to lock Floyd up in the drunk tank.
Salem’s Lot
4
One was said to have spent a night in the town's drunk tank.
Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
5
He was in the drunk tank of the Dade County jail.
Aground
6
You fished me out of the drunk tank for nothing.
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
7
The drunk tank lay straight ahead, its occupants lounging, sleeping, or clinging to the bars.
Grave Secrets
8
Besides having a county drunk tank, the County of Orange had a county lunatic tank.
Valis
9
In the drunk tank, because they seem not to have had anywhere else to put me.
Private life
10
To his left was the drunk tank.
The stand
11
I went to the drunk tank, which angered me mainly because I'd never gotten my freaking beer.
Side Jobs
12
Regardless, people do it bigger and brasher and louder in New York as they wobble towards the drunk tank.
The Irish Times
13
I had a strong feeling I'd arrived looking like someone who'd just been thrown out of the drunk tank.
A Hard Day’s Knight
14
Visited the house several times, finally got tired of waiting, went to see if Mitchell was in the drunk tank.
Fatal Voyage
15
In the drunk tank?
Analog sff, december 2009
16
Bengt Larsson is too drunk to be questioned in more detail, so I just sent him off to your drunk tank.'
The ice princess
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Drunk tank across language varieties
United States of America
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