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stretch
noun- a prison sentence; one year’s imprisonment US, 1821
A prison sentence of a number of years is given with the number of years preceding “stretch”. - He had been a pickpocket until a long stretch up the river gave him a turn of mind. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 15, 1947
- But a lot of the cases–after the booster detail has nabbed the guilty parties–end up in the charge being busted to vagrancy with a misdemeanor stretch at the county jail. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 28 June 1949
- That’s kid stuff, and anyhow them judges sent too many away for long stretches. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 73, 1952
- Telling about a stretch in Atlanta, where he kicked a habit cold: "Fourteen days I was beating my head against the wall[.]" — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 68, 1953
- A search of the sewer was begun for his body and the young criminals were taken to the police station, facing a long stretch in the reformatory. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 291, 1953
- “How long you got to do now?” He asked. “About a streatch [sic].” I answered. — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- Arrest, petty larceny and possession–and so on, until you wind up in a prison for a real stretch[.] — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 234, 1961
- That night she wrecked “Harlem’s” dope supply and when “Willie” finishes his ten year stretch, he’ll have to take another city for it[.] — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 102, 1967
- I was in County Jail with a long stretch ahead of me and two good books to while away the time. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 9, 1973
- Jean does as she’s bleeding well told. Especially to keep Jimmy off a twenty five stretch. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 53, 1974
- [I]t’s not been an easy life, particularly with that little stretch in Hull. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 6, 1984
- [H]e had only just completed a stretch at her majesty’s pleasure anyway. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 3, 1994
- [A]long with an actual two-year stretch he had done for fraud and embezzlement. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 145, 2001
- a longer-than-normal limousine with extended seating US, 1982
From “stretch limousine”. - He told her he got the band a stretch, a black one, so they’d arrive at the Forum looking big-time, past the marquee to see their name under Aerosmith. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 260, 1999
- the penis UK, 2001
- in poker, a hand consisting of a sequence of five cards US
Known conventionally as a “straight”. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 88, 1988
▶ to do a stretch
to shoplift NEW ZEALAND, 1985- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 132, 1999
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