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[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 130: Of course if there is any ‘T&A’ (Tits & Ass) programs, they are also a must.
at tits and ass, adj.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 130: Actually, the TVs are a pain in the ass.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 121: You can walk around and talk to the bosses and the warden.
at boss, n.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 125: The chow cart comes at this time.
at chow cart (n.) under chow, n.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 134: We have TV and lunch, the chow wagon arriving at 11 a.m.
at chow wagon (n.) under chow, n.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 282: Plea bargaining is a cop-out.
at cop-out, n.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 201: I haven’t even said a cuss word.
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 48: But my money ran out pretty quick, pretty dang quick.
at dang, adv.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvii: Shakedown means search.
at shake down, v.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 45: Because they’re flaky, you know, just strange.
at flaky, adj.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 202: I went over the same things to try to be high again [...] I’m happy, but I don’t have that flash like I had.
at flash, n.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 201: I was cussing every other breath, every word that come out of my mouth was MF, SB, GD.
at G.D., adj.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 211: They got a lot of masturbation freaks in there. They’re heavy. I mean heavy: five or six times a day.
at heavy, adj.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 73: They were giving me go-to-hell looks.
at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvii: My house means my cell.
at house, n.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvii: A jacket, to the officials, is an official record packet.
at jacket, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvii: To the inmates, jacket means a reputation.
at jacket, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 115: That’s the worst thing you can come down to the penitentiary with – a snitch-jacket.
at snitch jacket (n.) under jacket, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 171: Man, I got there and got on a coughing jag.
at jag, n.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 200: I was crazy, I was an insane man. Boy, it was old Satan. I was jarring him loose is what it was.
at jar loose, v.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 56: Homosexuals are jinkies.
at jink, n.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 56: They call different people ‘jinkie,’ you know. Homosexuals are jinkies. Certain people been busted a lot of times, they’re jinkie – you know, bad luck. Voodoo and what not.
at jinky, adj.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvi: Locked up usually means sent to the solitary confinement cells.
at lock up, v.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvi: Locked down means kept on cell restriction.
at lockdown (n.) under lock, v.1
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 201: I was cussing every other breath, every word that come out of my mouth was MF, SB, GD.
at m.f., n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 113: Men is worse than old ladies. I used to think ladies gossip. The men, they start messing, messing, messing. They become unreal [...] that’s all they got to do is down each other talking, start messing, everything.
at mess, v.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 278: And that is one thing you never know: when your number is up.
at number is up under number, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row xvii: To have nuts means to have courage or be brave.
at nuts, n.2
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 129: I do not watch Soaps.
at soap opera, n.
[US] Jackson & Christian Death Row 118: If this guy poops over there, you can smell it over here.
at poop, v.2
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