chokey

He's bang to rights and has a brief spell in chokey to get through.

Langham In Danger Newmania 2007

"Now, don't you try on any of your jokes with me, my man, or you'll find yourself in the wrong box, which is the strong box on board ship, and vulgarly called chokey!"

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

All right, I may have imagined the latter, but I believe I am closer to the true meaning of the word than all the politicians and sham social commentators using it to mean a few heads being cracked and six months in the chokey all round.

Joey Barton's robust Twitter chatter is sadly far from riotous | Martin Kelner 2011

A two-year driving ban and £800 costs, but no chokey.

Stephen Bates's diary 2011

The red dress: I love the bodice treatment but that chokey collar makes me want to claw at my throat.

A Cape? Why not? - A Dress A Day 2010

So, unless that kitten is 15 the father is gong to chokey.

Datz it, junior - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

The feds, or their local agents, will be waiting when he emerges from chokey.

Judges give Cop Killer a reduced prison sentence. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

Rev. Willie faces up to 15 years in the chokey after he broke the 8th Commandment by stealing $85,000 from St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal, the church where he worked.

Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2009

Ever since British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads scored with their 1979 single Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) -- which celebrated people like Elvis and the Marx Brothers and pleasures like Ploughman's sandwiches (cheddar cheese and a pickle) and "coming out of chokey" (solitary confinement) -- inquiring minds have wondered about parts one and two.

Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 1) 2009

Saying 'okey-dokey'/singalonga Smokey/Coming out of chokey

Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2) 2009