Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jail.
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Examples
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A campus art gallery hangs Mr. Kesey's jail-house drawings.
Acid Test: How Much Are a Merry Prankster's Papers Worth? Joel Millman 2011
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Although Phillips was hissed and booed at one point, the atmosphere in the jail-house chapel was generally more polite than it is in the studio, perhaps because the prisoners were sitting flanked by people with powers to deny them benefits.
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I think these long-after-the-fact recantations have about the same value as a jail-house snitch testifying the other way, absent true issues of provable fact via, say, scientific testing.jccampQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecutors Investigate Student Investigators 2009
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Concern about jail-house recruitment intensified after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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I knew that jail-house manners dictated the prisoner, not the visitor, is allowed to bring up the crime and if mentioned ( "Manson is a pathetic, disgusting, worthless, old man") you are allowed maybe one or two follow-up questions.
John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 2 of 5 2009
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When they told me I could go, I walked out in the bright sunlight, badly in need of a shave, clothes I had slept in for two nights, with that jail-house stench.
A Tijuana Jail 2006
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I think that last one may have been a jail-house lawyer.
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That she does so under the duress of a government prosecution, rather than through a debate, gives it the feeling of a jail-house confession; that's the nature of government censorship.
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But after handing me a signed glossy and a CD free of charge, he paid me a compliment and offered some revealing and sincere words of jail-house advice directed at me and a male friend: "Stay straight," Ike warned us.
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When they told me I could go, I walked out in the bright sunlight, badly in need of a shave, clothes I had slept in for two nights, with that jail-house stench.
A Tijuana Jail 2006
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