drunk tank
English
Noun
drunk tank (plural drunk tanks)
- (slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.
- 1962, Charles Bukowski, letter, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 57:
- [I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].
- 1987, Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, "Fairytale of New York":
- It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, won't see another one.
- 1962, Charles Bukowski, letter, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 57:
Translations
cell where drunken people are detained until they are sober
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