Reverse Dictionary: PRISON – NOUNS – PRISON SENTENCE

► ACE a 1-year jail sentence → 1927 US criminals’ sl.
► ACRE a prison sentence, cited variously as 1 month, 12 months or ‘plenty’ → 1930s Aust. & US sl.
► ACRE OF CORN a prison sentence, cited variously as 1 month, 12 months or ‘plenty’ → 1930s Aust. & US sl.
► AIR AND EXERCISE a gaol sentence → 1981 Aust. colloq., obs. (Bk.)
► ALL DAY a life sentence → 1970s US criminals’ sl.
► ALL DAY AND A NIGHT ► ALL DAY AND NIGHT  a life sentence without the opportunity of parole → 1976 US prison sl.
► ALL DAY FROM A QUARTER a sentence of 25 years to life → 1970s US criminals’ sl.
► ALL OF IT a life sentence → 1950s US prison sl.
► ALL THE YEAR ROUND a 12-month prison sentence → 1920s Aust. sl.
► ALPHABET an extremely long prison sentence → 2000s US prison sl.
► ANCHOR a reprieve, a temporary suspension of a sentence → 1910s US criminals’ sl.
► ANNUAL a year’s jail sentence → 1900s Aust. sl.
► ARM AND A LEG a prison sentence of five to ten years → 1991 US sl.
► BABY LIFE 1. the maximum sentence that prisoners must serve (6 years, 4 months) before a parole board is bound to consider their case for the first time → 1950s US prison sl.
2. a prison sentence of at least ten years → 2002 US sl.
► BAD-RAP a sentence of 20 years or more → 1970s sl.
► BAD TIME a prison sentence that causes the subject, who cannot acclimatize, a great deal of suffering → 1970s US criminals’ sl.
► BED AND BREAKFAST imprisonment for seven days → 1981 Aust. prison sl.. (Bk.)
► BEGGAR’S LAGGING a prison sentence of 90 days → 1950 UK sl.
► BEN NEVIS a long prison sentence → 2002 UK sl.
► BID a prison sentence → 1965 US prison sl.
► BIG BIT a long prison sentence → 1940s US criminals’ sl.
► BIG BITCH a conviction under any crime that carries a mandatory life sentence, or a sentence so long that it is an equivalent → 1960s US prison sl.
► BIG TIME maximum term in prison → 1970 US sl.
► BIRD a prison sentence → 1924 Brit. sl.
► BIRD-LIME imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1857 Brit. rhyming slang for ‘time’
► BIT imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1866 sl.
► BITCH a conviction under any crime that carries a mandatory life sentence, or a sentence so long that it is an equivalent → 1960s US prison sl.
► BLOCK seven days in jail → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► BOFFO a one-year prison sentence → c1930 US criminals’ sl.
► BOPPO a one-year prison sentence → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► BOTH HANDS a ten-year prison sentence → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► BOUNCE a jail or prison sentence → 1957 US sl.
► BOXCAR NUMBER a long prison sentence → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► BRICK a prison sentence of 10 years → 1996 Aust. prison sl. (Bk.)
► CALENDAR a prison sentence of one year → 1926 US sl.
► CARPET 1. a three month period of imprisonment → 1903 UK sl.
2. a three year sentence of imprisonment → 1956 UK sl.
► CARPET BAG, A three months’ imprisonment → 1903 Brit. sl.
► CHUNK a long prison sentence → 1950 US prison sl.
► CLOCK, THE twelve months imprisonment → 1950 Aust. sl.
► C-NOTE a prison sentence of 100 years → 1990 US sl.
► COAT OF VARNISH a reprimand; a prison sentence → 1956 UK sl.
► CREDIT a reduction of a jail sentence due to good behaviour → 1949 US sl.
► DEUCE a 2-year sentence → 1920s US prison sl.
► DEUCE-BURGER a 2-year sentence → 1920s US prison sl.
► DIME a ten year prison sentence → 1967 US sl.
► DIPSEY ► DIPSY a sentence to a workhouse, country jail, minor prison → c1910 tramps’ sl.
► DOOR the end of one’s prison sentence → 2000s US prison sl.
► DOSE a four-month prison sentence → 1996 UK sl.
► DOUBLE NICKEL a ten-year prison sentence → 1998 US sl.
► DOUBLE ROUGH a prison sentence of 50 years → 1990 US sl.
► DOUBLE SAW twenty years imprisonment → 1930 US sl.
► DOUBLE SAWBUCK twenty years imprisonment → 1930 US sl.
► DRAG a sentence of three months’ imprisonment → 1877 Aust. sl.
► DUCK a prison sentence of two years → 1990 US sl.
► EARTH SIS NOMS ► EARTH SITH-NOMS a 3-month prison term → M19 back-slang 
► EVLENET SITH-NOMS 12 months, usually as a prison sentence → M19 back-slang
► FALL imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1933 US sl.
► FIVE FINGERS a five-year prison sentence → 1992 US sl.
► FIVE TWENTY-NINE a jail sentence of one day less than six months; the maximum sentence for a misdemeanour charge in some jurisdictions → 1953 US sl.
► FIVE-SPOT a prison sentence of five years → 1901 US sl.
► FLUMMUT a 1 month prison sentence → M19 sl.
► GAG an indefinite prison sentence → 1958 US sl.
► HAIRCUT a short term of imprisonment, in a local prison from a few weeks up to 2-3 months, or in a convict prison for 3-5 years → 1940s UK prison sl.
► HALF A DOLLAR a prison sentence of 50 years → 1990 US sl.
► HALF A STRETCH ► HALF STRETCH 6 months imprisonment; also used by criminals for any period of 6 months → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► HANDFUL, A five years imprisonment → 1930 sl.
► HITCH a term of imprisonment → 1923 Amer. sl.
► HUMP the half-way point in a prison sentence → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► ICEBOX a life sentence → 1930s US prison sl.
► JACKET a jail sentence → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► JACK KETCH a jail sentence → L19 sl.
► JADE a long term of imprisonment → 1896 Amer. thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
► JOLT a prison sentence, usually with the number of years specified, as a ‘six-year jolt’ → 1912 US criminals’ sl.
► KATH a prison sentence of indeterminate time → 1910s Aust. sl.
► KATHLEEN MAROON a 3-year prison sentence → 1910s Aust. sl.
► KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN a prison sentence of indeterminate length → 1910 Aust. & NZ sl.
► L a life sentence → L19 US prison sl.
► LAG 1. any length of sentence → 1910s prison sl.
2. a 3-month sentence → 1930s Aust. prison sl.
► LAGGING 1. a penal term of more than three years → c1850 cant
2. any prison sentence → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► LEG a term of imprisonment or transportation → 1821 sl.
► LIFE life imprisonment → 1833 Aust.
► LIFE ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN a series of prison sentences with brief periods of freedom between, which have the cumulative effect of a life sentence → 1949 US sl.
► LITTLE BITCH an exceptionally long prison sentence → 1970s US prison sl.
► L.W.O.P. a life sentence with no possibility of parole (Life WithOut Parole) (pronounced ‘el-wop’) → 2000s US prison sl.
► MAG a six month jail sentence → 1920s US criminals’ sl.
► MAGAZINE six months to a year in jail → 1926 Amer. prison sl.
► MOON a month’s imprisonment → 1830 sl.
► NAG-DRAG a three-month period of imprisonment → 1889 UK criminals’ sl.
► NATURAL 1. a life sentence → 1930 Amer. prison sl.
2. a seven-year sentence → 1933 Amer. prison sl.
► NEVES ► NEVIS a seven-year sentence → 1958 UK prison back-slang
► NEWSPAPER thirty days imprisonment → 1926 sl.
► NICE BIT a long prison sentence, i.e. 10 years or more → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► NICKEL a five-year prison sentence → 1953 US prison sl.
► NINEPENNYWORTH a nine-month prison sentence → 1984 sl.
► NINE TO NEVER an indeterminate prison sentence → 1974 S. Afr. prison sl.
► NO-TRUMP a life prison sentence without chance of parole → 1976 US sl.
► NUMBER a life sentence → 1930 African-American sl.
► ONE HUNDRED SMACKERS a 100-year prison sentence → 1992 US prison sl., arch.
► ONE-SPOT a prison sentence of one year → 1949 US sl.
► PACKAGE 1. a sentence of imprisonment → 1912 US criminals’ sl.
2. a (long) prison term → 1950s US criminals’ sl.
► PACKET a long sentence → 1990s US prison sl.
► PADDY DOYLE imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1919 Brit. services’ sl.
► PAPER TIME the additional years added to a prison sentence because of publicity surrounding the crime, criminal, and/or trial → 1962 US sl.
► PONTOON a prison sentence of twenty-one months, occasionally twenty-one years → 1958 sl.
► PORRIDGE imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1954 Brit. sl.
► QUART a one year prison sentence → 1950s W. Indies sl.
► QUARTER 1. a 3-month prison sentence → L19 UK criminals’ sl.
2. a prison sentence of 25 years → 1964 US sl.
► QUARTER BIT a jail sentence of three months → 1977 UK sl.
► QUARTER STRETCH a jail sentence of three months → 1977 UK sl.
► RAP 1. imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1927 sl., chiefly US
2. a 1-year sentence → 1930s US prison sl.
► READ OF TRIPE transportation for life → M19 rhyming sl.
► ROFE a four-year prison sentence → 1940s US prison back slang
► ROFEFIL a life sentence → M19 back slang
► ROUF, A four years imprisonment → 1950 Brit. sl.
► SANE a 10-year prison sentence → 1930s Aust. sl.
► SAWBUCK a ten-year prison sentence → 1950 US criminals’ sl.
► SAWBUCK ten years’ imprisonment → 1925 US sl.
► SEIN a 10-year prison sentence → 1930s Aust. sl.
► SHEET CHANGE a very short prison sentence → 2001 NZ prison sl.
► SIXER six months’ imprisonment or hard labour → 1849 sl.
► SKIN BEEF a prison sentence for an unspecified sexual crime → 1976 US sl.
► SLEEP, A a comparatively short prison sentence → 1911 sl., orig. US
► SPELL a sentence of 3 months imprisonment → 1996 UK sl.
► SPLIT BIT an indeterminate sentence, subject to the decisions of the parole board → 1950s US criminals’ sl.
► SPOT imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1901 US sl.
► STATE TIME a prison sentence served in a state prison → 1995 US sl.
► STRETCH imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1821 sl.
► SWY a two-year prison sentence → 1941 Aust. sl.
► TAIL-PIECE a term of three months imprisonment → 1859 UK criminals’ sl.
► TAXI, A between five and fifteen years imprisonment → 1930 US sl.
► TENNER a ten-ear prison sentence → 1866 US prison sl.
► TEN-SPOT a ten-year prison sentence → 1928 US prison sl.
► TIME imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1837 sl.
► TOP the maximum prison term → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► TRAMP’S LAGGING a prison sentence of 90 days → 1950 UK sl.
► TRAY, A ► TREY, A three years’ imprisonment → 1887 sl.
► TRICK imprisonment; a prison sentence → 1933 US sl.
► TRIP an arrest; a prison sentence → 1920s US criminals’ sl.
► TWIST a life sentence → 1984 Aust. prison sl. (Bk.)
► TWO-SPOT a two-year prison sentence → 1901 US
► UNDERTAKER a life sentence; any other very long sentence → 1935 US prison sl.
► V a 5 year prison sentence → 1930s US prison sl.
► VACATION a prison sentence → 1920 criminals’ sl.
► VALENTINE a short prison sentence, maximum 1 year → 1920s US prison sl.
► WAKE-UP n. a short time remaining on a jail sentence or term of military service, esp. the last morning → 1950 US sl.
► WALKING TICKET an official notice to inform a prisoner that they have finished their sentence → 1950s Aust. & US prison sl.
► WHEEL a life prison sentence → 1991 US sl.
► WHISPER the very end of a prison sentence → 1976 US sl.
► WINO TIME a short jail sentence → 1992 US sl.
► WOLF a prison sentence of 15 years → 1990s US sl.
► WOODENER a sentence of imprisonment for 30 days → 1950 UK rhyming sl., ‘wooden spoon’ for ‘moon’
► WOODEN SPOON a month’s imprisonment → 1998 UK rhyming sl. for ‘moon’
► YARD 1. a year; thus a sentence of 1 year → 1930s US prison sl.
2. a prison sentence of 100 years → 1969 US sl.
► ZACK a prison sentence of six months duration → 1981 Aust. prison colloq. (Bk.)
► ZIP-FIVE a prison sentence of a maximum of five years → 1964 US sl.