单词 | juvie |
释义 | juvie/ˈdʒuːvi /noun (plural juvies) informal 1A youth, especially one involved in disorder or criminal offences.In one of these alternate universes, I was run down at Southdale on Monday afternoon by two juvies hotrodding diagonally through the middle of a parking lot....
2 [mass noun] US A detention centre or court for juvenile offenders.Asked by an officer what he was thinking, he replied: "I'm going to go to juvie."...
Origin1940s: abbreviation of juvenile. |
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