Jail

Word JAIL
Character 4
Hyphenation jail
Pronunciations /dʒeɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Jail"

What do we mean by jail?

A place of detention, especially for persons who are accused of committing a crime and have not been released on bail or for persons who are serving short sentences after conviction of a misdemeanor. noun

Detention in a jail. noun

To detain in a jail. transitive verb

A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for crime or for debt; usually, in the United States, a place of confinement for minor offenses in a county. noun

To confine in or as if in a jail; imprison.

To imprison. transitive verb

A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. noun

The release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. noun

See under Gaol. noun

Typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. noun

A space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. noun

A peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock. noun

A place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. noun

Confinement in a jail. noun

School noun

The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). noun

To imprison. verb

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail verb

A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) noun

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

Confinement in a jail.

The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

(FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

A synonym of hell nah, no way or let's not. Usually used for cringy people/things/memories. Urban Dictionary

School. Urban Dictionary

A government owned facility that claims to either correct or teach wronged or uneducated individuals but in reality is a front that generates income for the state. Urban Dictionary

1.A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons awaiting trial under local jurisdiction. 2.Detention in a jail Urban Dictionary

While incarcerated it refers solitary confinement. (´the hole´) Urban Dictionary

A place where crips, bloods, and Pachucos are as happy as clams, but where crooked businessmen are nervous and should never bend over. Urban Dictionary

1. the place where criminals are confined 2. the place where all you do is toss the salad 3. The place where you'll be grateful when someone kills you with an icepick that's made out of a sharpened tooth brush. Urban Dictionary

-The house of the rapes. -The raping world. -Faggot maker. Urban Dictionary

A place that makes your ass hurt. Urban Dictionary

When someone tells sum shit funnier but really gross r inappropriate r absurd n u’re right there be like: Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Jail

The word "jail" in example sentences

Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Assuming all judicial systems around the world are basically right and that everyone in jail is supposed to be there, the United States of America (home of the brave and land of the free) is by far the most criminally-infested country in the world, followed only by Russia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nicole True, Mr. Jimenez Ruano 's lawyer, said, "People forget that the way someone ends up in jail is based on a human being making a decision." ❋ Ana Campoy (2010)

The AG that should be in jail is the current AG and the POTUS for war crimes and crimes against humanity and trampling the Constitution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So putting two people in jail is a human rights violation, but her husband's actions, who caused about 100,000+ deaths, in Iraq is not? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scott Norberg, (google his name) who died in jail, is an example. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I speak from personal experience when I say that all most of them are concerned about when they are put in jail is getting out and getting on with THEIR lives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Putting some of these low life in jail is very costly and they will only learn more ways of criminality. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

After all, Jigsaw said "In the event of my disapearence, the evidence needed to put you in jail is in the right places." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kate not being in jail is a good reason for an alternate time line theory? ❋ Unknown (2007)

A Polish computer programmer could face up to three years in jail for linking a Polish word for penis to the presidential Web site. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She saluted him and presented a written petition to this purport, He thou hast clapped in jail is my brother, such and such, who fell out with such an one; and those who testified against him bore false witness. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The reason he behaved in jail is not because he had an epiphany or was miraculously changed by the experience. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fortunately for us all it is usually in jail from the other side of the glass. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word jail suddenly took shape from a mist of abstraction. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

"I just found [a picture] of myself with [bangs]!" "[JAIL]" ❋ Segsyqueenloaf (2020)

[I have to go] to [Jail] for [five] days a week. ❋ Satanist (2003)

[County] [Jail], State [Prison], High school, College ❋ Bobfredjim (2009)

jail [sucks] ❋ Ac (2004)

"[after the] [shake down], the [guards] took him to jail" ❋ X (2003)

[Ken Lay] belongs in jail with a few [hundred] greasy [slime] balls. ❋ The Wog Whomper (2005)

1. Lock his ass up! Put him in Jail! 2. [Nighty night]! Keep your [bung hole] tight! 3. [Let me out] of this hell hole! ❋ Farenheights (2004)

Welcome to jail, Prisoner: Take off ur pants son. Bitch: Wtf? Prisoner: Oh ya, Who's [yo daddy] Bitch: AAAHHHHHH!!!! In another cell: [Tap that ass]!!! [GoGoGo] ❋ Fuck Everybody Else (2005)

[People] get [buttfucked] [alot] in jail. ❋ Michael Of SoCal (2007)

HAHJAHJAGA [JAIL] ❋ @malebratz03 (2020)

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