Big Q
US slang nickname for San Quentin State Prison, California — one of the most notorious maximum-security prisons in the United States.
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US slang nickname for San Quentin State Prison, California — one of the most notorious maximum-security prisons in the United States. Used freely in discussions of the US prison system, in crime journalism, and in hip-hop and street culture contexts where San Quentin's reputation looms large.
He'd done five years in the Big Q and came out quieter and harder than anyone who'd known him before.
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(US, slang) San Quentin prison.
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