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jug
noun- a jail or prison US, 1816
- And don’t forget they threw some musicians in the jug out in California for ten days[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, 1946
- Then I’d rip off my blouse, give a scream, and run for the telephone or door, hysterically threatening to have him jugged for trying to rape an innocent young girl. — Whisper Magazine, p. 20, May 1950
- Slugs do it, bugs do it, even funny looking mugs in jugs do it. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 72, 1952
- Jake’s a nice boy so they give him plenty of privileges in the jug, huh? — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 127, 1953
- You want to go to the jug, it’s your funeral, but I ain’t sending any flowers. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 39, 1954
- We were rounded up and brought down to the jug. — Joe Houston, The Gay Flesh, p. 69, 1965
- Conditions on Skid Row were frightful that winter for all the meths drinkers who had failed to get into the jug. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 16, 1966
- [C]aptains of industry only being allowed out of jug because they’re suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease ... and then forgetting they’ve got it. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 6, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996
- a bank US, 1848
- He could have a million in the jug. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 111, 1969
- — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, 1982
- “We should do a jug,” Jimmy declared. Billy laughed. “A jug?” “Yeah,” Jimmy went on. “You know, a bank.” “I know what a fucking jug is.” — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, pp. 87–88, 2001
- a glass of beer AUSTRALIA
No longer common. Only used colloquially and not when ordering beer at a hotel where a “jug” is precisely that, a jug of beer that you take back to a table and fill glasses from. - Let’s suck a jug. — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 52, 1960
- What say we wander up to the mess and hit oursleves with a jew jugs, Pete? — W.R. Bennett, Night Intruder, p. 104, 1962
- [O]ther times you spend the whole week with the feet up just swallowing jugs, and you come up trumps with the foot. — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 120, 1992
- a large table jug for beer AUSTRALIA
- How many middies does a jug hold? — Bazza and Curly, Betcha Wrong!, p. 83, 1990
- a glass ampoule holding liquid drugs US
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 24, 1971
- a small container of amphetamine or methamphetamine in liquid form US, 1980
- JUG: Ampule of liquid drugs, also a multi-dose container. — Elizabeth Finn, Drugs in the Tenderloin, 1967: Glossary of drug slang used in the Tenderloin
- — What do they call it again?, 1980
- a cylinder in an aeroplane engine US
- — American Speech, p. 119, May 1963: “Air refueling words”
- a carburettor US, 1942
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: “Racing jargon”
- in electric line work, a horizontal post insulator US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 10, 1980
- a Republic P-47 bomber aircraft US, 1944
- The Jug’s short range was also criticized. — Jerry Scutts, P-47 Thunderbolt Aces, p. Back Cover, 1998
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