🫙 A large container 🥛 A full amount 🍲 To stew food 🚔 To jail

to jug

9.9

To put someone in jail

verb
/dʒʌg/

Archaic

: meter en la cárcel

- They'll jug you right alongside of me.

It said, don't jug, don't jug, definitely don't jug.

Examples

I'll send the cops out in squad cars the night before the election, jug all the hoodlums.

Capone (1975)
The police will jug suspects if they are caught breaking the law.
It said, don't jug, don't jug, definitely don't jug.

The Basement Yard
If you keep causing trouble, they might jug you for the night.
The officers decided to jug him after he refused to cooperate.

Synonyms

to imprison

vsto jug

Formal

178 4.2

Put someone in prison as a punishment or keep them locked up

is slang and casual rather than formal legal or official language

to put away

vsto jug

115 5.8

To lock someone in prison or a secure place

is slang used broadly not necessarily implying long term punishment

to jail

vsto jug

108 2.1

To put someone in prison as punishment

is an informal slang rather than a neutral or formal expression

to put behind bars

vsto jug

26 4.3

Send a person to prison as punishment

is a more informal slangy way to say that action

to remand

vsto jug

Jargon

25 8.5

To put someone back in custody until their next hearing

is slang for confinement and not specifically a legal order before trial

to incarcerate

vsto jug

Formal

18 8.4

To put someone in prison and keep them there

is informal slang not the formal legal term for that confinement

to immure

vsto jug

Archaic

1 9.9

To lock someone inside a room or building against their will

is informal slang for arrest rather than a literary walling up

to gaol

vsto jug

Archaic

9.9

To put someone in prison as punishment

is slang speech instead of that standard non-slang expression

to lag

vsto jug

Archaic

9.9

To put someone in jail

is general modern slang rather than a regional or archaic usage

Antonyms

release

279 1.8

An act of letting someone or something go free from being held

to liberate

104 4.3

Set someone free from prison or unfair control

Compounds

water jug

3 1.0

A container for holding and pouring water

jug band

1 7.9

A group that plays music with jugs, washboards, and other homemade instruments

jug wine

1 4.3

A cheap wine that comes in large bottles and is usually low quality

jug-eared

Offensive

1 8.2

A person with large ears that stick out from the head

Toby Fillpot jug

9.9

A ceramic drinking mug shaped like a short man wearing a tricorn hat

toby jug

Archaic

9.9

A large mug shaped like a man wearing a three-cornered hat used to serve beer

whiskey jug

3.5

A container for holding or serving whiskey

How Confined

to imprison

Formal

178 4.2

jail

∞ 1.0

to jug

Archaic

9.9

to detain

Formal

169 5.9

arrest

∞ 2.7

Surface Forms

jug infinitive

jugged past

jugged past participle

jugging present participle

jugs third person singular

Etymology

The slang verb jug (to put someone in jail) comes from British use of the jug to mean 'prison'. So to 'jug' someone is to send them to 'the jug', which is why it means to arrest or confine someone.