innocent n.
1. (US) a corpse.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocabulum. |
2. (Aus./US Und.) a prisoner [since the prisoner is locked up they cannot be accused of any subsequent crimes until release; Irwin suggests the near universal claim by criminals that they are innocent].
| Vocabulum 44: innocents Convicts, because it is supposed that they cannot commit a crime. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict. 38: Innocents, persons in gaol. | |
| ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 451: Innocent, A convict. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 107: Innocent. – A convict or other prisoner. |
3. (UK Und.) a sentence passed on an innocent man.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Daily Tel. 16 Oct. in (1909) 157/2: An ex-convict, who admitted having undergone long terms of penal servitude, applied to Mr Denman, at Westminster, complaining that his worship gave him three months’ ‘innocent’ in May 1893 at South-Western Police Court. |
4. (US black) an ironic ref. to white liberals wishing to become involved in the black struggle [from stock liberal disavowals of racism, prejudice, the responsibility for slavery etc.].
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