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fish tank
noun- a holding cell for newly arrived prisoners US, 1962
A wonderful pun with independently formed terms. - We had our heads shaved (a practice soon discontinued), were mugged, measured for Bertillon indexing, fingerprinted, and then assigned single cells in what was then the “Fish tank” section of the Old Prison. — Caryl Chessman, Cell 2456 Death Row, p. 217, 1954
- — Don Dempsey, American Speech, p. 269, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 496, 1984
- Even when I was in the fish tank (the thirty days of processing and classification in lock-down you go through before you enter the main population), I heard about the man[.] — James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, p. 6, 1986
- “[T]hey will let you know your disposal options when you get to the Fish Tank.” — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 36, 2002
- a bus UK
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 154, 1981
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