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n. (context slang English) prison, jail.

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Big House (band)

Big House is an American country music band based in Bakersfield, California. Grounded in the Bakersfield Sound, originally, the band consisted of Monty Byrom ( lead vocals, guitar), David Neuhauser ( guitar, keyboard), Chuck Seaton ( guitar), Tanner Byrom ( drums), Sonny California ( harmonica), and Ron Mitchell ( bass guitar). Under this lineup, Big House recorded two albums for MCA Nashville: 1997's Big House and 1998's Travelin' Kind. These two albums produced four chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including the No. 30 hit "Cold Outside."

After the release of their second album, all of the band's members departed except for Monty Byrom and David Neuhauser. Benny Rappa was then signed as the band's new drummer, and Steve Vines assumed the role of bass guitarist. The revamped lineup recorded one album for Dead Reckoning Records before disbanding in 2000. The six original members reunited for concerts in 2007 and 2008, and released a fourth album in 2008 Never Ending Train.

Big House (song)

"Big House" is a song by Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline, from their 1993 album Don't Censor Me. The song reached number 1 on Christian radio and is often regarded one of the band's biggest hits of their career. It won the 1996 GMA Dove Award for Long Form Music Video of the Year, and received the Song of the Decade title from CCM Magazine for the 1990s.

In 1998, the song was recorded by Seven Day Jesus for a Forefront Records compilation album celebrating the tenth anniversary of the record label. The album featured classic songs from Forefront artists performed and updated by other artists.

Big House (Palisades, New York)

Big House is a historic home located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York. The Big House is the oldest dwelling in Palisades and the only building remaining from the hamlet's formative years. It was built about 1735 and is a large stone dwelling in a vernacular ethnic "Dutch" style. It consists of a rectangular central block flanked on either side by wings. In the nomination for the National Register of Historic Places it is further described as embodying

the distinctive characteristics of the eighteenth-century regional Dutch vernacular building tradition, specifically its one-and-one-half story, gable-roofed form, linear plan, multiple entrances, and masonry construction.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Big House (album)

Big House is the debut album by American country music band Big House. It was released on March 25, 1997 via MCA Nashville. The album includes the singles "Cold Outside," "You Ain't Lonely Yet" and "Love Ain't Easy."

Big House (Moccasin, Arizona)

Big House in Moccasin, Arizona was built in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included two contributing buildings.

Usage examples of "big house".

In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her.

He had an estate in Norfolk, this big house, the Maison Grenelle in Dijon, and a villa at Monte Carlo.

They wandered from the big house toward the cluster of lodging huts farther down the broad white beach, their steps uneven on the rough ground.

Through a side door of the big house, Omer came running, shouting.

For that very reason, he was keeping her right here in his big house in Fort Lauderdale.

I drove through the gates and up the sunken driveway to the porte-cochere of the big house.

She had become too old to live alone in the big house in the old section of Gale Street.

But I knew that inheriting this big house was a great opportunity for us.