Reverse Dictionary: JAIL

ADJECTIVES
► ICED in jail; placed in the punishment block, in a dark cell in prison → 1925 US criminals’ sl.
► IN DUTCH in jail; imprisoned → 20C US criminals’ sl.
► IN THE NICK in jail → Bk1999 Aust. sl.
► JAILISH suggestive of a jail; jail-like → 1751
► LYING IN STATE serving time in jail → 1920s US prison sl.
► OUT OF TOWN in jail or prison → 1982 US sl.
► UNDER THE HATCHES in trouble, dead, in jail → M16 sl.
► WALKING THE LINE serving a jail sentence → 1980s Aust. prison rhyming sl. for ‘do time’

NOUNS
► ALKY TANK a holding cell in a jail reserved for drunk prisoners → 1962 US sl.
► BIG ROCK a jail or penitentiary → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BIN jail → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BOOBY HATCH jail → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BUCKET a jail → 1955 Amer. dial.
► BUGHOUSE a jail → 1956 Amer. dial.
► CABOOSE a jail; a prison→ 1865 US sl.
► CALABOOSE ► CALLIBOUSE ► CALLYBOOSE a jail, esp. one in a village or small town → 1792 Amer. sl.
► CALABOSO ► CALABOZO a jail, esp. one in a village or small town → 1892 sl.
► CALLY a calaboose; a jail, a lock-up → 1919 Amer. sl.
► CAN, THE jail → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CARCEL a jail or prison → 1840 Amer. dial.
► CLINKERUM jail → Bk1890 sl.
► COUNTY BOARDING HOUSE a jail → 1965 Amer. sl.
► CROWBAR HOTEL a jail → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD TIME time served in jail which does not count towards fulfilment of the prisoner’s sentence → 1973 US sl.
► DIGGER a county or city jail → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ESTABLISHMENT, THE the Fremantle jail → M19 Aust. sl.
► FANNY HILL the Los Angeles County women’s jail → 1981 US sl.
► FREE BOARDING HOUSE a jail → 1965 Amer. sl.
► GAL TANK a holding cell in a jail reserved for homosexual prisoners → 1972 US sl.
► GAVIL jail → 1483 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► GRAYBAR HOTEL a jail; a prison → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► GRAYSTONE COLLEGE a jail, a prison → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► HATCH a prison; a jail, a police station → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► HIGH JINKS a county or city jail → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HOSPITAL jail → 1959 US euphemism
► HUT a jail cell → 1949 US sl.
► INK-POT a jail, a prison dark-cell → 1925 US criminals’ sl. 
► IRON HOUSE a prison; a jail → 1927 US criminals’ sl.
► JAILERING the occupation of a jailer → 1837
► JAR a county or city jail → 1969 Amer. dial.
► JAVEL jail → 1483 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► JUG AND PAIL a prison or jail → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► JUG a jail or prison → 1816 US sl.
► KITTY a jail → arch.
► MOAN AND WAIL a jail → 1940s rhyming sl.
► MONKEY HOUSE a jail, prison stockade → 1982 US military sl.
► NEWGATE a jail; spec., the prison for the City of London → 1592
► PIG HOUSE a county or city jail → 1970 Amer. dial.
► POGEY a jail → 1965 Amer. dial.
► POKE a jail or prison → 1950 Amer. dial.
► POKEY ► POKY a jail → 1919 Amer. sl.
► POT a county or city jail → 1966 Amer. dial.
► QUEEN TANK a jail holding cell reserved for flamboyantly effeminate homosexual men → 1988 US sl.
► SHERIFF’S BOARDING HOUSE a jail → 1965 Amer. sl.
► SISSY TANK a jail holding cell reserved for homosexual prisoners → 1981 US sl.
► SKOOKUM HOUSE a jail → 1885 Amer. dial.
► SNEEZER a jail or prison → 1953 US sl.
► SWISH TANK a holding cell in a jail where homosexual suspects and prisoners are kept → 1992 US sl.
► TOLBOOTH a town prison, a jail → c1470 chiefly Sc.
► TRONK a jail → Bk1892 S. Afr. sl.
► TROTLINE in a town where there was no jailhouse, a drill cable was strung between big timbers planted in the earth, and the prisoners changed to the cable, called a ‘trotline’ → 1941 Amer. dial.
► UGJAY a jail → 1930 US Pig Latin for ‘jug’
► VACATION PLACE a jail or prison → 1970 Amer. dial.
► WALK a release from jail → 1965 US sl.
► WALLED-OFF ASTORIA a jail → 1966 Amer. dial.
► WALLED-OFF HOTEL n. a jail → 1966 Amer. dial.
► WINO TIME a short jail sentence → 1992 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ALL-NIGHTER a person who stays in jail all night after being arrested → 1992 US sl.
► DEBUTANTE a woman serving her first jail sentence → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► GALLOWS-ROGUE a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → 1894 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS-TAG a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS-TANG a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing → 1887 Eng. dial.
► NEWGATE-BIRD a thief, a sharper, a jailbird → 1607 sl.
► NEWGATE-NIGHTINGALE a thief, a sharper, a jailbird → c1531 sl.

VERBS
► POLISH THE KING’S IRON WITH THE EYEBROWS to be in jail and look through the iron-grated windows → 1780 sl.
► TAKE LEG BAIL to escape from jail → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)