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jail
verb
to serve a prison sentence, especially without losing hope or sanity US- But you like jailing, Red. Nunn didn’t. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 325, 1967
- Then he stepped out on the gallery, slamming the door behind him with the experience of a convict who has been jailing for a long time. — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 8, 1977
- I told him, he wouldn’t listen. He never learned how to jail. You know, live in a place like that. So he died. — Elmore Leonard, Stick, p. 173, 1983
- Jailin’ was an art form and lifestyle both. The style was walkin’ slow, drinkin’ plenty of water, and doin’ your own time; the art was lightin’ cigarets from wall sockets, playin’ the dozens, cuttin’ up dream jackpots, and slow’in your metabolism[.] — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 122, 1990
- Elvin, eating pizza, said he’d give him some pointers on how to jail. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 47, 1991
- [A]fter the first few months of watching the calendar go by, banging his fists on the wall in blind rage and disbelief, he learned to “jail” the rest of his time. — Tracy Funches, Pimpnosis, pp. 42–43, 2002
▶ be jailing
to wear your trousers or shorts very low, below the buttocks, with your boxer shorts visible above the trouser line US
From the image of prisoners who are not allowed to have belts and whose trousers thus sag.- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Fall 1993
▶ jail it
to wear your pants with the belt-line below the top of your underpants US- The end fashion statement is calling “jailing it”–a five-to-eight-inch revelation of white boxer tops precariously embraced by the string-tightened pants below. — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 173, 2002
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