Usually means: Sent to prison; incarcerated, punished.
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  1. up the river: Merriam-Webster
  2. up the river: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. up the river: Wiktionary
  4. up the river: Dictionary.com
  5. Up the River: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. up the river: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Up the River)

noun:  a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, and starring Claire Luce, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart.
noun:  a 1938 American prison comedy film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Preston Foster and Arthur Treacher and featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.


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