bang-up n.2
1. imprisonment within one’s cell, without association or exercise.
![]() | Porridge [TV script] Midday, bang up [...] back to your cells. | ‘New Faces, Old Hands’|
![]() | Vinnie Got Blown Away 69: Some nicks got twenty-three-hour bang-up. | |
![]() | (con. 1990s) A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 354: There are no bang-ups and, in fact, the cells are called ‘rooms’ and prisoners have their own key to their room. |
2. the shutting of a cell door (at the end of the prison day).
![]() | Inside 8: After ‘bang up’ (an apt expression after hearing the door slam), we had ten minutes before ‘lights out’. | |
![]() | Layer Cake 36: Most nights I was glad when bang-up came so I could be on my jack. | |
![]() | Prison Diaries 51: Bang-up. About twenty minutes later the observation slit opens. |