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upstate
adjective- in prison US, 1934
- Too bad I didn’t havya upstate. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 44, 1957
- Then the whole two years I did upstate nothing was on my mind but this girl Ann. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 54, 1966
- Your trip upstate was held up because you wasn’t in no shape to make it. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 128, 1973
- We were bullshitting a while about upstate when Earl sent his broad upstairs. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 28, 1975
- “You’re referring, I believe,” Jack said, “to when I was upstate that time?” “Upstate, that’s good. Well, you seem to have enjoyed a successful rehabilitation.” — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 156, 1987
- Rocco was momentarily confused; upstate was a local euphemism for jail. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 221, 1992
- I don’t make things worse. In Jersey last month, wasn’t for me, you’d be upstate, Joe. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 230, 1997
- murdered US
- “He went upstate” meant the guy got whacked, and don’t ask again. — Henry Hill and Byron Schreckengost, A Good Fella’s Guide to New York, p. 61, 2003
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