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(historical) A purveyor of provisions; a provedore. [14th–18th c.]
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A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work.
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(military slang) A know-it-all.
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(military slang) A know-it-all.
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(US, slang) An opening in the door to a prison cell, allowing food to be passed through.
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(US, slang) San Quentin prison.
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(slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
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A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
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(UK) Solitary confinement.
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An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
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(US, Australia, dialect) A prison or jail/gaol.
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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
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A wing of a prison containing cells for the inmates.
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One of the buildings in a prison that contains cells for the inmates; cellblock.
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(prison slang) One’s room of incarceration, jailcell.
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Someone who has been forced to work in a chain gang, usually a convict.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A fee paid by a prisoner to be able to lodge in shared rooms within a prison.
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To use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.
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Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”)
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(US, slang) jail, prison
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(chiefly UK, social sciences) A person who practises deshopping.
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A summer camp where obese children are sent to lose weight.
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(slang) A section of a prison for newly arrived inmates.
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(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
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(real estate, US) A fixer-upper.
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(informal) A person who tinkers or fixes things up; in particular, someone who fixes up houses, properties, etc. as an investment.
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(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the third floor.
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(military) To clean aggressively.
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(Britain military slang) A military prison.
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(Australia, slang, obsolete or historical) The amount work that a convict was required to complete each day.
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(US, slang) jail, prison
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(transitive, informal, also figuratively) To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
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(usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
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(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
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(obsolete, slang) The pulpit of a church.
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A locked room to incarcerate an inmate in prison.
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(Britain military slang) A form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent uniform inspections.
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(obsolete) A local lockup / prison
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A type of prison where prisoners are obliged to do forced labour, usually outdoors.
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(now historical) A small house where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, especially where debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison.
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(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.
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(Trinidad and Tobago) Something of little or no value exchanged for something valuable, originally goods exchanged for slaves.
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(idiomatic) A room in insane asylum with padding on the walls to prevent delusional occupants from injuring themselves.
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Alternative form of peddlery [(obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.]
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(UK, prison slang) A prison cell.
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(Britain, slang) A prison sentence.
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Synonym of prisoners' bars (“the game”)
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The room to which a prisoner is confined in a prison.
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(military) A prison guard; particularly one who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty.
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The main building of a prison.
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One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.
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A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
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(dated, UK, thieves' cant and Polari) A prison.
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A group of people who band together to make a raid or foray.
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A man who rescues people.
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A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
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(UK, slang, historical) The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.
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(intransitive) To work hard.
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(slang) An employer who demands excessive amounts of work from employees.
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Alternative form of slave-driver [An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.]
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Alternative form of smous [(South Africa, historical) To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.]
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse.
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(prison slang) A prisoner who generally obeys the rules and avoids trouble.
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Alternative spelling of stockpicker [(finance) An investor or investment advisor who selects or recommends corporate shares for purchase.]
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(colloquial) a military prison
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(archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
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A training camp whose purpose is to teach students methods of terrorism.
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(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the second floor.
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(historical) A cage used by the Vietnamese to confine prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.
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(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the first floor.
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(often figuratively) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
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(intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
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(slang) Mental hospital.
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(US, dialect, dated) A house-cleaning party.
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(obsolete, thieves' cant) Newgate Prison in London, England.
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A trafficker in white slaves.
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(US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
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