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"German colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"prison, jail"
],
"links": [
[
"prison",
"prison"
],
[
"jail",
"jail"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) prison, jail"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Gefängnis"
},
{
"word": "Kittchen"
},
{
"word": "Knast"
}
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/baʊ̯/"
},
{
"audio": "De-Bau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/36/De-Bau.ogg/De-Bau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/De-Bau.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊ̯"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"de:Bau"
],
"word": "Bau"
}
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