jankers n.
(UK milit.) punishment for defaulters.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Regiment 27 Jan. 288/1: [W]hen a soldier has received punishment and is sentenced to so many days ‘C.B.’ (confined to barracks), he is said to be doing ‘jankers’ . |
In compounds
an authority figure.
| Swag, the Spy and the Soldier in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No. 26 50: I recalled gloomily what the jankers-man had said about the glasshouse. |
one who is undergoing punishment.
| (con. 1926) Memoirs of Two Different Soldiers 23: Mother [...] helped some of the jankers wallers with food, without Dad knowing. |
In phrases
in prison or undergoing some form of punitive discipline.
| (con. 1900s) Old Soldier Sahib (1965) 54: I was now a defaulter, or ‘on jankers’ as the troops called it. | |
| Of Love and Hunger 211: And when you’re sweating on jankers or cookhouse, just remember yours truly, Larry Heliotrope! | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Weak and the Wicked 51: Words such as [...] ‘jankers’, ‘adrift’ and ‘hatter’ were well-worn synonyms for [...] ‘punishments’, ‘desertion’, and ‘homosexual’. | |
| (con. WWII) Soldier Erect 90: Someone was reminiscing gaily about the first time he was on jankers. Mention of jankers reminded me of picket duty. | |
| McAuslan in the Rough 13: I don’t care if half the detachment’s on jankers. | |
| (con. WW2) Heart of Oak [ebook] Get your plates moving or I’ll have the slew of you on bloody jankers. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 426: ‘What’s jankers.’ ‘Squaddy lingo idn’t it. When you been a bad lad you get jankers. Punishment’. |
an excl. of surprise.
| Dark is Light Enough 69: Who’s this, then? By jankers, I see who it is. |