jailhouse
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs/
:
cárcel
- Portwood can finally look forward to a jailhouse visit from her daughter, Leah.
According to the texts from a source he described as a quote, jailhouse snitch.
- According to the texts from a source he described as a quote, jailhouse snitch.
Examples
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Well, I'll visit you in the jailhouse.
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I mean, who would be stupid enough to bring a weapon to a jailhouse?
Fiction book (1997) -
When I hear the jailhouse doors close behind me, girls.
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And if they got somebody posted outside, you walk right on up to the jailhouse and just wave to me, will you?
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A night in the jailhouse will probably teach him more than a month in the schoolhouse.
Fiction book (1997) -
No one would be surprised when he became a jailhouse casualty.
Fiction book (1991) -
Michael arrived an hour later, after receiving his wife's phone call from the jailhouse.
Fiction book (2001) -
The iron door clanged shut behind him with an impact that seemed to shake the stone jailhouse.
Fiction book (1997) -
In his charcoal Brioni suit, he looked incongruous but not uncomfortable in the jailhouse setting.
Fiction book (1997) -
The lawyer met with her client inside the jailhouse to discuss the upcoming trial.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A building where people are kept as punishment or while waiting for trial
∞
1.0
A building where people are kept as punishment or while waiting for their trial
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5.5
A small room in a police station where police keep people temporarily
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9.8
A prison or jail where people are kept after arrest
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4.3
A prison run by a state government for people found guilty of serious crimes
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9.9
A small jail where people wait for trial or serve short sentences
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8.6
A prison or jail where people are kept by the police
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9.9
A jail or prison where people go when they break the law
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8.9
A building that holds people as punishment for a crime
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4.9
A place where people who broke the law are kept as punishment or while they wait for trial
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9.9
A small, dirty local jail
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6.3
A place like a prison where people are kept as punishment for crimes
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4.6
A building where people are held as punishment or while waiting for trial
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6.0
A building that holds people as punishment for crimes to protect the public
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9.9
A small local jail where police hold people, often in the past
A place where people are kept after being arrested
Antonyms
How Secure
- Specialized
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7.9
- US
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7.9
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1.0
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4.1
40
5.5
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jailhouse is simply jail + house, where jail comes from an old word for a 'cage' and house means a 'building'. So a jailhouse is a building where people are kept by the authorities, which explains its modern meaning.