slang. A term of hard labour; twelve months as a term of imprisonment. Also loosely, a prison sentence (frequently with preceding numeral…
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| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (month(s)) (8) stretch1821 slang. A term of hard labour; twelve months as a term of imprisonment. Also loosely, a prison sentence (frequently with preceding numeral… moon1830 slang. A month's imprisonment. (Used in singular after a numeral.) sices1844 plural. In various elliptic uses. U.S. slang. A prison sentence of six months. sixer1849 slang. Six months' hard labour. Also, six months' imprisonment. drag1851 Criminals' slang. A term of three months in gaol. carpet1917 Criminals' slang. elliptical for carpet-bag, n. 2. carpet-bag1938 Rhyming slang. = drag, n. 8b. pontoon1948 slang. A term of twenty-one months (occasionally twenty-one years), esp. as a prison sentence. Also: a twenty-one year period of service in the… |
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