jail : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly
  jailbird; gaolbird.
  

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• a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. Slang

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• noun a room where a prisoner is kept
  cell; prison cell.
  

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• noun the use of force to liberate prisoners
  

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• the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence.

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• . See under Gaol.

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• (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; called also hospital fever, and ship fever.

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

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• a peculiar form of padlock; called also Scandinavian lock.

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• to escape from confinement in jail, usually by forcible means.

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