Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US Und./police) pertaining to juvenile crime.

1973		in C. Browne Body Shop 19: We got caught [...] I thought for sure I’d go to Juvey Hall.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 288: I ever tell you what I used to do to all the pricks in the juvie gangs when they turned eighteen.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 274: ‘He ratted off shitloads of gangsters to the juvie dicks downtown’.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 21: You’ve done juvie time.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 72: I went straight from juvie detention to the joint.
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 8: Drifting in and out of juvie halls and county lockups.
2012		D. Whish-Wilson ‘In Savage Freedom’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Juvie boys [...] all the usual tatts and labels.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 78: Some juvie arrests for possession and shoplifting.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 2258: I’m a cucold, a cornuto, a juvie jerkoff, a chump.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 236: They had a juvie section in Rosie’s [(authors’ note Rose M. Singer Center]. I remember that we played like little girls.