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How To Use Chokey In A Sentence

  • Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey ` customs station 'and chowk ` marketplace,' from cauki ` marketplace '; mulmul (see above) and mull ` soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit ` scholar; man held in high respect 'and pundit ` very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit ` wise, learned '; and numdah ` thick felt rug' and numnah VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • He packed off the burglar for a lengthy spell in the chokey, and settled down for his third trial of the day.
  • 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?
  • 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)
  • If you notice the camerawork is a bit shaky and there are some snorty, chokey sounds in the background, it's because he let me hold the Flip camera and I was kinda laughing. Link-mad Monday
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  • He opted for chokey instead of a £500 fine and is currently out on appeal.
  • Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey ` customs station 'and chowk ` marketplace,' from cauki ` marketplace '; mulmul (see above) and mull ` soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit ` scholar; man held in high respect 'and pundit ` very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit ` wise, learned '; and numdah ` thick felt rug' and numnah VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Harry Potter is in his third year at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry when Sirius Black, the man who may have killed his parents, escapes from wizard chokey.
  • 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
  • At 410 years per death that would make the pharmaceutical industry liable for over 43 million years of chokey in the US alone.
  • A two-year driving ban and £800 costs, but no chokey. Stephen Bates's diary
  • Which then implies my guilt and before I could say ‘GrocerJack Robinson’, I'm doing a hefty old stretch in the chokey at the pleasure of Her Maj!
  • In both cases a long spell in chokey. The Sun
  • He's bang to rights and has a brief spell in chokey to get through. Langham In Danger
  • Saying 'okey-dokey'/singalonga Smokey/Coming out of chokey Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2)
  • 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
  • Herr Pfannenstiel served three-and-a-half months in the chokey recently for match-fixing in the local S-League.
  • And as the latter carried a heavier alternative jail sentence, she warned Ms Kane that she faced more than one night in chokey when she returns for sentence next week.
  • Did it hurl the seamstresses' ringleaders into chokey? Times, Sunday Times
  • If not, he warned, the perpetrator could face years in chokey or even the death penalty.

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