flyer n.4
(US prison) suicide by throwing oneself from an upper gallery in a cell-block.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Maledicta IX 180: Terms provided by him and collected from police, fireman and ambulance personnel slang as to cause of death: […] jumper and flyer (jumped). |
In phrases
(US prison) to kill oneself by leaping from an upper gallery.
| Never Come Morning (1988) 153: ‘If I was here for six more months [...] I’d take a flier.’ To take a flier was to throw oneself over the rail headfirst onto the concrete below. |