Cal⋅ca⋅traz [kal-kuh-traz]
–noun
1. a prison like location where calibrations are performed and calibrators are confined.
See also: Alcatraz, a small island in W California, in San Francisco Bay: site of a U.S. penitentiary 1933–63.
Origin:
2003–05; Coined during Operation Iraqi Freedom by an unknown Marine Corps calibrator deployed to Al Taqaddum Airbase, Iraq.
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