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gate fever noun the anxiety suffered by prisoners as they approach their release date UK- — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 30, 1976
- — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 54, 1999
- “Maybe what you got is a big old dose of what’s called gate fever in reverse.” “Gate fever?” “When guys are comin to the end of a bitta bird they start panicking, getting anxious, cos they can see the end. You’re sweatin about gettin captured.” — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 90, 2000
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