alphabet n.
1. (US prison) an extremely long sentence, in N.Z. system a life or Preventive Detention sentence [pun on SE sentence, i.e. a ‘sentence’ so long that it cannot be characterized by numbers; or the criminal has been given ‘the lot’].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Alphabet: A sentence so long that it cannot be characterized by numbers. (VA). | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 6/2: alphabet, the n. 1 a life or Preventive Detention sentence. [because the criminal has received the lot]. |
2. (N.Z. prison) a mix of class A, class B and class C drugs.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 7/1: charged for or with the alphabet arrested for possession of Class A, Class B and Class C drugs: ‘What did they charge you with?’ ‘The alphabet’. |
3. (Aus. und.) law enforcement agencies known by their initials.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Orphan Road 73: [L]ike-minded groups could train for the coming race war, without any prying questions from the ‘alphabets’, as he referred to law enforcement agencies. |
In compounds
(US) a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 98: ‘For what it’s worth, I’m one of the alphabet people too, the LGBTQIA+’+. |
a mass of representatives from a variety of agencies (e.g. law-enforcement) the initials of whose names make the ‘alphabet’.
| ‘Broken’ in Broken 10: Half an hour later, the boat is awash with alphabet soup. |
(N.Z. drugs) a weekend almost entirely devoted to wide-spectrum drug use.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 7/1: ‘I had an alphabet weekend: A, B, C, D, E and F.’ i.e. the speaker took a Class A drug (e.g. LSD); a Class B drug (e.g. speed); and a Class C drug (e.g. cannabis); got drunk (D); took Ecstasy (cf. E) and ‘got Fucked’ (he either had sex, or became physically and mentally incapacitated. |