send sb up
— phrasal verb with send uk/send/us/send/verb [ T ] sent, sent
(PRISON)
US UK send sb down informal to send someone to prison:
He was sent up for armed robbery.
She was sent up for three years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lock
- pen
- remand
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- serve
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