Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK Und.) a country lock-up; thus bird hut, a cell or cage.

1846

Swell’s Night Guide 122/2: Hut, a country cage, or lockup; Hut, bird, a man cage.

2. (US) an apartment, a dwelling place; one’s home.

1908

K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xviii: I take a spoonful of olive oil every evening before I duck the hut, so I [...] have the seating capacity of a bonded warehouse.

3. (US) an apartment, a dwelling place; one’s home.

1908

K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xviii: I take a spoonful of olive oil every evening before I duck the hut, so I [...] have the seating capacity of a bonded warehouse.

4. (US prison) a cell.

1929		C.G. Givens ‘Chatter of Guns’ in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr.; list extracted in AS VI:2 (1930) 133: hut, n. Cell.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 24: [H]e told a screw to take me up to the Red Compound and lock me up in a hut there.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 105/2: Hut. (P) (Rare) A cell.
1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 7: Hut A prison cell.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 91/1: hut n. 1 a cell.