hospital, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hospital n.

hospital heroin (n.) [a synthetic opiate used in hospitals as a substitute for heroin]

(drugs) Dilaudid.

1984		Abel Dict. Drug Abuse Terms.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 12: Hospital heroin — Dilaudid.
2003		Guardian G2 20 Oct. 5: He had for years been addicted to prescription painkillers, aka ‘hospital heroin’.

do you like hospital food? [the potential assailant asks this of a victim, who prob. replies ‘No’ and is told ‘Well you’d better get used to it’]

a threatening phr. used immediately before administering a beating; ad hoc vars. abound.

1989		M. Amis London Fields 5: It took Keith several crunchy beatings, and the first signs of a liking for hospital food, before he concluded he wasn’t cut out for racketeering.
1998		M. Newall ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight’ in Indep. Weekend Rev. 26 Dec. 1: And thenne Sir Gavin said: ‘You fond of hospital foode?’.

in hospital [euph.]

(US) in prison.

1908		J.M. Sullivan Criminal Sl. 13: In hospital—In jail.
1919		NY Tribune 8 June 7/5: If locked up in jail he is ‘in the hospital’.
1927		Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 13 Nov. cited in AS III:3 255/1: Hospital, in In prison.