Thesaurus:prison
English
Synonyms
- big house
- calaboose (US, Australia)
- can
- chokey, choky (UK)
- clink
- correctional facility
- correctional institution
- hock
- house of detention
- joint [⇒ thesaurus]
- jug
- nick
- pen [⇒ thesaurus]
- penitentiary
- porridge (UK)
- prison
- queer ken (UK cant, Polari)
- slammer
- stir
- tronk (South Africa)
See also
Further reading
- “752. prison” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “prison” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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