jailhouse
Use jailhouse in a sentence
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jailhouse (ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| (Southern US) a jail; prison | |
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jailhouse
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Most jailhouse snitches offer to tell tales on one other inmate, maybe two.
In the jailhouse photographs, he is almost forty pounds lighter.
Brewer was involved in a slew of jailhouse beatings and brawls.
Both have become canny jailhouse lawyers, and communicate by mail with hundreds of individuals.
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