juvie
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈdʒuːvi/
- Slang
:
reformatorio
- I got four years in Gatesville, toughest juvie in Texas.
- get into juvie
- go to juvie
- send to juvie
I volunteer at a juvie, call it kid jail.
- I volunteer at a juvie, call it kid jail.
- So in the meantime, they end up sending me down to the the juvie when I get there.
- But for but for you, bro, like you mentioned graduating, right, People from, you know, cats from from the juvie graduate to prison.
- So I would go to youth groups and I would go to juvie halls.
- And so it's just boys at risk and they couldn't work with therapists, They couldn't work with, you know, juvie, you know, social workers, anything.
Examples
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I volunteer at a juvie, call it kid jail.
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Y'all thought juvie was bad, y'all should have been to St. Pauls.
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Come on, direct to juvie with you, son.
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Yeah, they said they were in juvie this summer.
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No more juvie hall, right?
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Did you learn that in juvie?
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In and out of juvie.
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If you fail here, they'll send you to juvie.
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I'd just done a stint in juvie when my old man picked me up.
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He spent three months in juvie after making some bad choices.
Synonyms
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6.3
A locked place where young people who break the law are kept
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6.5
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
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6.2
A place where young people who broke the law stay temporarily under court care
Surface Forms
Etymology
Juvie is a short, informal form of juvenile and the phrase juvenile delinquent, both about 'young' offenders, and people began using it for the place where those youths are held. So juvie often means a youth detention center.