jankersn.

1916 J. N. Hall Kitchener's Mob 35 The ‘jankers’ or defaulters' squad was always rather large.

1919 Athenæum 25 July 664/2 The advent of the Royal Navy Division introduced to the Army the sailor's slang word ‘jankers’, the equivalent of the soldier's ‘clink’, punishment cells.

1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 When doing C.B. or ‘time’ he [sc. the soldier] was doing ‘jankers’ or ‘Paddy Doyle’.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Jankers King, The: The Provost Sergeant.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Janker's men: Defaulters.

a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) ii. xxii. 160 A week before my last jankers.

1936 F. Richards Old-Soldier Sahib ii. 54 I was now a defaulter, or ‘on jankers’ as the troops called it.

1946 Penguin New Writing 27 72 I stepped into the hall of B.H.Q. over two janker-wallahs.

1946 Penguin New Writing 27 73 He broke off to bawl out the jankermen.

1960 T. Rattigan Ross i. ii. 20 None of your lip, Parsons, now—unless you want a dose of jankers.

1965 J. Porter Dover Two ix. 122 I pulled her leg about it a bit, you know, said something about having her put on jankers if she was late again.

1971 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 July 6/2 Jankers can be painful. It usually means confined to barracks and menial tasks.

1971 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 July 6/2 My first jankers was for causing a fire.