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stir
noun- a prison or jail UK, 1851 Derives from Romany stariben, steripen thus Welsh gipsy star (to be imprisoned), stardo (imprisoned).
- I’ve been in the stir and I’ve had my miseries, but all in all life’s been good to me. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 3, 1946
- When a guy gets out of stir he goes straight sometimes. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 21, 1950
- Well, Julie wasn’t enjoying the can so much. He didn’t know nothing about life in stir. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 228, 1955
- Few men, once they get outside, keep to the arrangements they make in stir[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 31, 1956
- Long after the turn of the century, a few trickles supplied pig-tailed Chinamen, despondent prostitutes, ex-cons who had picked up the habit in the stir and a few rich fools who would try anything for a bang. — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 152, 1960
- The Office, Barlow called it. Home, John Watt called it. The Stir, Clink, Bog, Nick, depending on what you are, and where you come from. — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 21, 1962
- You spent thirteen years in stir on a second-degree murder rap. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 123, 1966
- Like being in the hole only there’s TV and little stuffed animals with you, a half-breed Indian hit man and a female corrections officer, queen of the cons. Shit, I may as well be in stir. — Elmore Leonard, Killshot, p. 165, 1989
- a party NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 120, 1998
- teasing AUSTRALIA
- [T]he late Bill Bryan (who loved a bit of a “stir”) used to fire them up, with great gusto, and then sit back and enjoy the fun. — Centralian Advocate, p. 7, 25 January 1985
▶ do stir
to serve time in prison UK- The only felons who did stir were debtors, who were banged up in South London which take my word for it is punishment enough. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 44, 1994
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