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sent to the Tower
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inter
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joint
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three hots and a cot
big house
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pokey
carcerally
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bid
porridge
bird
time
lock up
bonds
do time
at Her Majesty's pleasure
immured
hard time
jailtime
slammer
boob
crossbar hotel
pinta
graybar hotel
weigh off
quod
behind bars
imprison
stir
jug
icebox
clink
house of correction
tronk
correctional institution
bughouse
camp
cooler
nigger university
durance
incarcerable
stretch
custodial
bailey
jam roll
supermax
prison house
good time
hold
roof
reincarcerate
under glass
jailward
antiprison
jailwards
poky
crowbar hotel
bin
bastille
in prison
cellbound
can
serve time
reimprisonment
inside
encage
lockup
dungeon
pay one's debt to society
house of detention
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three hots and a cot
big house
pokey
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porridge
bird
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time
bonds
hard time
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slammer
boob
crossbar hotel
pinta
quod
stir
icebox
clink
house of correction
tronk
correctional institution
bughouse
camp
cooler
nigger university
durance
stretch
bailey
jam roll
prison house
good time
jug
poky
bin
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can
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lockup
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tank
throw
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commit
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sent to the Tower
inter
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lock up
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weigh off
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jug
hold
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dungeon
pay one's debt to society
incarcerate
verb
- To imprison.
- To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To install (a bridge).
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- Synonym of pass
- Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To deliver.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To discard.
- To send desperately.
- To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To confuse or mislead.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To intentionally lose a game.
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To imprison.
- To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
noun
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
verb
noun
- Confinement in a jail.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
verb
verb
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
noun
prep_phrase
verb
noun
- Prison.
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A thing.
- A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
verb
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
noun
- Prison.
- Installment purchase.
- Debt.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
verb
noun
- A prison sentence.
- A chicken or turkey used as food.
- A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- A penis.
- An airplane.
- A girlfriend.
- A yardbird.
- A satellite.
- A man, fellow.
- Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
verb
- To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- To transmit via satellite.
- To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- To bring into prison, to roof.
- To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
adj
noun
- The serving of a prison sentence.
- The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- The hour of childbirth.
- A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- An instance or occurrence.
- A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- A quantity of availability of duration.
- The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- Ratio of comparison.
- The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
- Closing time.
- Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- An experience.
- Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
intj
- The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
- Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
- A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
verb
verb
- To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
- To invest in something long term.
- To stop moving; to seize.
- To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
- To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
- To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze.
- To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
- To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque.
- To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.
- To cease responding; to freeze.
noun
name
prep_phrase
noun
- Jail; prison.
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
verb
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
verb
- To put into jail.
- To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- to issue a detention (to a student)
- To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
noun
- Jail.
- A hold large enough for both hands
- A woman's breasts.
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- detention (after-school student punishment)
- An upright electric kettle.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
noun
noun
noun
- A prison.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
- A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A single hut or shelter.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- Campus
- A summer camp.
- An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
- The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
verb
- To set up a camp.
- To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- To stay in an advantageous location.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- To afford rest or lodging for.
adj
noun
- A prison.
- A bouncer or doorman.
- A cold deck.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- Anything which cools.
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
- samalamig
noun
- A jail or prison term.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
adv
adv
name
noun
- Jail or prison.
- Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
- Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- A container for rubbish or waste.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- Jail or prison.
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
adv
- In or to prison.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
noun
- The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The interior or inner part.
- (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
prep
- Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
- Within a period of time.
adj
- Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
noun
- A jail cell, or a period of incarceration.
- A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
- A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
- A device for locking type into position for printing.
- A condition in which one or more of a vehicle's wheels suddenly cease to rotate due to the application of excessive brake torque, causing the affected wheel(s) to skid.
- A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
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