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A '''big house'' or '''The Big House''' may refer to:

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*[[The Big House (film)|''The Big House'' (film)]] from 1930s

*[[The Big House (TV series)|''The Big House'' (TV series)]] aired by the A&E Network

*[[The Big House (Rugrats episode)|"The Big House" (Rugrats episode)]] episode of ''[[Rugrats ]]''.

*[[prison]] in U.S. slang

*[[Michigan Stadium]] used by University of Michigan football

*[[Oklahoma state fair arena]]

*[[country house]] owned by a member of the [[Anglo-Irish#The Anglo-Irish social class|Anglo-Irish ascendancy]]

*[[royal flush]] — best hand in poker

==Buildings==

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===Types of building===

* [[The Big House in Ireland]]

* [[Great house]], in Ireland, specifically houses of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy

* a type of [[longhouse]] among the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast

* [[Wharenui]], a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand

* a slang term for [[prison]]

*An [[African-American Vernacular English]] term referring to a [[plantation house]] on an American [[Plantation complexes in the Southern United States|slave compound]].

===Individual buildings===

* [[8 House]] or Big House, a mixed use development in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark

* {{Language with name/for|ru|[[Bolshoy Dom]]|italic=no|Big House|links=no}}, Saint Petersburg, Russia, headquarters of the Federal Security Service

* [[Big House, Landshipping]], Pembrokeshire, Wales

* [[Ibrox Stadium]], Glasgow, Scotland, nicknamed 'The Big Hoose'

* [[Big House, Irene]], Gauteng, South Africa, the residence of South African statesman Jan Smuts

====United States====

* [[The Allman Brothers Band Museum]], Macon, Georgia, also known as "The Big House"

* [[Big House (Moccasin, Arizona)]]

* [[Oklahoma State Fair Arena]], Oklahoma City

* [[Big House (Palisades, New York)]]

* [[Michigan Stadium]], Ann Arbor, Michigan, nicknamed The Big House

==Entertainment==

* [[The Big House (1930 film)|''The Big House'' (1930 film)]], starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery

* [[The Big House (2000 film)|''The Big House'' (2000 film)]], short film directed by fromRachel 1930sWard

* [[The Big House (documentary film)|''The Big House'' (documentary film)]], 1997 documentary film directed by David Goldie

* [[The Big House (TV series)|''The Big House'' (TV series)]], aireda by2004 theAmerican A&Etelevision Networksitcom

* [[The Big House (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)|"The Big House" (''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'')]], a 2017 television episode

* [[The Big House (Orange Is the New Black)|"The Big House" (''Orange Is the New Black'')]], a 2019 television episode

* [[Big House (American band)]], a country music band from the late 1990s

** [[Big House (album)|''Big House'' (album)]], their self-titled debut album

* [[Big House (Canadian band)]], a Canadian rock music band active in the early 1990s

* [[Big House (song)|"Big House" (song)]], a 1993 song by Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline

==Other uses==

* [[The Big House (tournament)]], an annual ''Super Smash Bros.'' tournament in Michigan

* [[Clarence "Big House" Gaines]], American basketball coach

==See also==

* [[The Big Hoose]], Scottish prison Barlinnie in Glasgow

* [[House (disambiguation)]]

* [[Big (disambiguation)]]

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