cellie n.
1. (US prison) a cellmate.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Hellhole 30: Frankie, my ‘cellie,’ said that if I wanted a shower I’d have to scramble for it. | |
| ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 200: celly, n. – cell partner. | |
| (con. 1969) Straight Life 397: Hey, your cellie’s asleep. | |
| Silent Terror 66: The nods I got when I spoke the words [...] told me that none of my ‘cellies’ could risk voicing disbelief. | |
| Prison Sl. 38: Cellie also Cell Mate and Cell Partner Someone who shares cell with another person. | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 240: A celly I had in Lewisburg, he had a brother did hard time down in Texas. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 49: My cellmate, Kansas (‘cellie,’ he explained, is the proper prison term for a roommate), says I’m too mature to be a prime target for unsolicited affections. | |
| Pain Killers 25: The rabbi, he’s so tortured by his celly [etc.]. | |
| Running the Books 127: One of my celly’s just told me you were sky writing her. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Old Scores [ebook] Either converse with your cellie – speak seven different kinds of shit, didn’t matter – or even better, go inside yourself. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] [H]is celly, a Dominican who was in for installing secret compartments in dealers’ rides. | |
| Border [ebook] ‘You’re my cellie, so no one fucks with you’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | What They Was 260: The cunts had to carry him out, says his celly. | |
| Boy from County Hell 140: ‘[M]y cellie says he taught this cockroach to jump and roll over’. | |
| Riker’s 50: I jumped up in horror. I got out of bed and my celly was like, what happened? | |
| I Am Already Dead 271: ‘The dead guy was an old cellie, he knew the risks’. |
2. (US) ext. to general, non-prison use, a friend.
| Tuff 152: You niggers ain’t shit. I need some new cellies. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Celly. Salty. Polly. Gully. |
3. (US und.) a cell-phone.
| Border [ebook] Nico might have been the best cell-phone booster Calle 18 ever had [...] There was money in cellies. |