cellmate
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- noun
- /ˈsɛlˌmeɪt/
- A few months left to go, I get a new cellmate in.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd he was my cellmate, like such a nice guy, man, such a nice guy, massive.
- And he was my cellmate, like such a nice guy, man, such a nice guy, massive.
- But that was quite difficult actually, because in in the film, I wake up to my cellmate who's hung himself.
- There was supposed to be a cellmate in there with him, but his cellmate had been transferred on Friday and not replaced.
- Yeah, so my cellmate was at the window, yeah, at the window of the cell door, laughing about the situation.
- Anyway, there was a lad there who basically was taking his cellmate every night.
- I know a guy who stabbed the guy is cellmate and went back to bed, killed him and went to sleep.
Examples
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Just remember, number one rule in prison, always look out for your cellmate.
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Bet you didn't know Beggars and Rollo were cellmates at Angola.
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And he was my cellmate, like such a nice guy, man, such a nice guy, massive.
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- He was my cellmate for four years.
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There was supposed to be a cellmate in there with him, but his cellmate had been transferred on Friday and not replaced.
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My cellmate was insane and a murderer, but he respected me.
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George watches as his cellmate quickly clears everything off the top bunk.
Fiction book (2001) -
I glanced at Grissom, my cellmate, as I tied on my boots.
Fiction book (1994) -
John Chancler... was a cellmate of Willie O'Keefe's at Angola...
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My cellmate and I shared stories about our lives before prison.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cellmate comes from cell 'small room' and mate 'friend' or 'companion', as in classmate. So a cellmate is someone who shares your small room, which is why it means the person who shares your prison cell.