• A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of personsheld in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or withreference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.]This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton.Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] -- Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legallyor by violence.-- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.-- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it,generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- calledalso hospital fever, and ship fever.-- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jailwithin which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowedto go at large. Abbott.-- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called alsoScandinavian lock.


    Jail meaning & definition 1 of Jail.


  • School.

    Jail meaning & definition 2 of Jail.


  • being confined to a certain area that usually smells like the combo of piss, shit, feet, ass, nuts, body odor, lysol, and mildew for a preset or indefinite amount of time.

    Characteristics include a 64 sq ft room with a sliding door that contains several iron bars that is opened remotely. The room also contains a stainless [shitter](def #2) that hasn't been cleaned since 1989 and a bed that probably has been urinated over and jacked off on 1000s of times.

    (so I've heard)

    also [clink], [iron city], [lockdown], [tank], and [bighouse]

    Jail meaning & definition 3 of Jail.


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

    Jail meaning & definition 4 of Jail.


  • -The house of the rapes.
    -The raping world.
    -Faggot maker.

    Jail meaning & definition 5 of Jail.


  • [Slavery] of the 21st century in the United States.

    Major corporations would rather invest in building more prisons than education and/or employing more people with health benefits.

    Jail meaning & definition 6 of Jail.


  • 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.

    Jail meaning & definition 7 of Jail.


    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.

    Jail meaning & definition 8 of Jail.


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

    Jail meaning & definition 9 of Jail.


  • the gay's paradise.

    Jail meaning & definition 10 of Jail.

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