Words and phrases that have a meaning related to jail: (175 results)
Often used in the same context:
prison, penitentiary, slammer, solitary confinement, lockup, detention, sentence, imprisonment, probation, incarceration, confinement, hoosegow, parole, custody, correctional institution, juvie, convicts, inmate, brig, arrest, prisoner, bail, detention centre, gaol, jailer, jailhouse, courthouse, remand, correctional, calaboose, rearrest, cellmate, hospital, handcuffs, clink, courtroom, stockade, watchhouse, conviction, workhouse, arraignment, penal institution, misdemeanant, jailbird, ankle bracelet, magistrate, felon, plea bargain, indeterminate sentence, bondswoman, bondsman, gallows, reformatory, borstal, psychiatric, detainer, recognisance, supermax, recognizance, cellblock, sheriff, extradition, sallyport, deportation, pokey, juvenile, detainment, lam, infirmary, misdemeanor, morgue, fugitive, felony, offenders, sex offender, probationers, penal colony, plea, parolees, priors, penal, criminal court, nuthouse, court, charges, punishment, arrest warrant, imprison ment, chokey, drug peddler, jailor, mentally ill, pharsalia, judge, criminal, warden, loony bin, sott, rehab, detox, sargus, captivity, prisons, jails, barracks, cemetery, gaols, encampment, bathhouse, camp, canteen, depot, graveyard, brothel, church, hen, list, retiring, author, blithe, campus, change, context, culture, cycle, disenchanted, elephant, elizabethan, everything, fabled, fabulous
More specific:
holding cell, hoosgow, house of correction
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Also try:at worst, bastille, break, breakout, clap, con, convict, exemplary, gaol, gaolbird, gaolbreak, hold, holding cell, hoosegow, hoosgow, house of correction, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, inmate, jailbird, jailbreak, jug, keep, lag, land, lockup, opaque, pokey, prison-breaking, prisonbreak, put away, put behind bars, quixotically, remand, time, workhouse
— Adjectives for jail: local, old, new, common, central, sub, public, mexican, british, provincial, present, more...
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