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jailsnounpl. of jail a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodysentenced to three years in jail for his crime bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, cans, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, hocks, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pens, pokeys(slang), prisons, quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades, tolbooths(Scottish) bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides jailsverbpresent tense third-person singular of jailto put in or as if in prisonthreatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked commits, confines, immures, imprisons, incarcerates, interns, jugs, locks (up) constrains, limits, restrains, restricts, shutsbars, gatesapprehends, arrests, busts(slang), captures, catches, detains, nabs, picks up, pinches, seizesimpresses, shanghaisholds, impounds, keepsbinds, enchains, fetters, handcuffs, manacles, shackles, trammels discharges, frees, liberates, releases emancipates, enfranchises, manumits, unbinds, uncages, unchains, unfetters |