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zek|zɛk|
[a. Russ., prob. repr. pronunc. of z/k, abbrev. of zaklyuchënnyĭ prisoner.]
In the U.S.S.R., a person confined in a prison or forced labour camp.
1968T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle p. x, All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged, though they were not at the time in hard-labor camps, to the realm of GULAG. 1977Guardian Weekly 26 June 22/2 And didn't his author work gratefully too in the same sharashka, or Island of Paradise, as the zeks called these ‘soft’ research camps? 1982T. J. Binyon Swan Song viii. 58 They got him for parasitism and a few other offences. Now he was presumably..east of the Urals and taking the zeks for their bread ration. |