Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. imprisoned.

1837		‘The Wide Awake Club’ in Bentley’s Misc. Feb. 214: M’Flummery is in Newgate for passing forged notes [...] I thought he would be jugged some day.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 34: As soon as one of them got jugged and found a temporary home in the State-prison, she would get another.
1861		A. Smith Medical Student 33: Poor Jones got jug’d by mistake, but eventually got off next morning with a five shilling fine.
1867		M. Lemon Golden Fetters II 206: I’m only an accessory, and I’d better be jugged for a month or two than be starved.
1888		‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 166: I’m not going to be jugged again.
1894		Bristol Mercury 23 Aug. 5/3: [headline] Jabez Jugged.
1900		T.J. Hains Mr Trunnell Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’ Ch. i: ‘Andrews has the whole of it according to contract.’ ‘But he’s jugged.’.
1900		Truth (Sydney) 30 Dec. 5/5: Sez as how he’s been a joker / Wot has got jugged up in jail .
1908		A.N. Lyons Arthur’s 74: Got ’erself jugged, the woollen-’eaded lunatic.
1910		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Derby Bet’ Sporting Times 28 May 1/3: The jugged one said ‘Yes!’ with a mute ‘I don’t think!’.
1912		Truth (Wellington) 6 Apr. 6/1: [headline] Journalist Jugged.
1918		H.S. Truman letter 1 Nov. in Poen Letters Home (1984) 60: If the censor opens this letter [...] I’ll be jugged or jimmied or bobtailed, to say the least.
1925		Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 170: He couldn’t come himself, because he was jugged for biffing a cop on Boat-Race Night.
1930		‘Leslie Charteris’ Enter the Saint 112: Roger knew that he might as well be jugged for a julep as a jujube.
1936		M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 88: He’d been jugged in eighteen states.
1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 19: ‘Jugged?’ He says [...] ‘Three months, hard, and her costs. She would do it posh.’.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1952		Lait & Mortimer USA Confidential 80: After he got jugged it cost the municipality $35,000 to take the name ‘Shushan’ off the municipal airport.
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 19: [He] had been jugged for stealing a pair of green and yellow checked trousers.
1971		Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 48: He seldom escaped unjugged on Boat Race night for pinching policemen’s helmets.
1982		J. Davis Dreamers 83: Look, Nyoongahs buy their grog from Wetjalas, they break the law and they git jugged by Wetjalas.

2. (US, also jugged up) drunk.

1933		(con. 1923) cited in Partridge Sl. To-Day and Yesterday (1970) 313: Terms for ‘intoxicated’ [...] jugged.
2002		picture caption 🌐 The bitch is so jugged up she hasn’t a clue what’s goin’ on.