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Black Hole Of Calcutta
see synonyms of black hole of calcuttaNoun
1. black hole of calcutta
a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Black Hole Of Calcutta
see synonyms of black hole of calcuttanoun
1.
a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived
2. informal, mainly British
any uncomfortable or overcrowded place
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