graybar hotel

alternative gray bar hotel

1. USslangJail, prison.

   Or busted and sent to the graybar hotel for twenty years on a heavy federal rap.

   2001, Steve Perry, Point of Impact (Tom Clancy's Net Force), →ISBN, page 103

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   Outside his cage were more bars, and, beyond them, narrow steel-bound windows looked out over Los Angeles from the fifteenth floor of the Hall of Justice. The trusties called it the Graybar Hotel, a modern fireproof establishment, with room service.

   1949, Ray Morrison, Angels Camp

   […] could well wind up in the graybar hotel if any of the situations Lauren paints here actually do take place.

   2003, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN, page 37

   If you do something like this, I will be sure that you spend a long, long time in the graybar hotel.

   2004, Eliot Trimberger, The Epilepsy and Osteoporosis Link, page 197

   Synonyms: graybar motel, gray bar motel