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jailhouse

/jeyl-hous/US // ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs) //

牢房,狱室,囚室,监狱

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jail·hous·es [jeyl-hou-ziz]. /ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a jail or building used as a jail.

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Examples

  • Nicole Reffitt said she helped her husband write the letter and solicit support through phone calls and a jailhouse messaging app inmates are allowed to use periodically to communicate with the outside world.

  • One striking example of this is the $350,000 former Missouri sheriff’s home outfitted with a hidden door leading to an old-fashioned jailhouse that made headlines last August.

  • Alaska lawmakers were unmoved, comparing the swabs to jailhouse mugshots.

  • At the jailhouse meeting in Phoenix, Treem and Gordon urged the inmate to sign the document.

  • Statistics are one thing, enduring the jailhouse ordeal another.

  • As Sharpton now visited Tupac in prison, the rapper told him that his jailhouse friend was not a big fan of the reverend.

  • He claimed, “LaBeouf seems to carry with him, to put it mildly, a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes.”

  • He sits with his elbows on his knees, his jailhouse tattoos a pale blue against the field of copper flesh.

  • Meanwhile, Loubani became the jailhouse doctor, giving medical advice to prisoners and guards alike.

  • And you men hold the answer whether Lee used the telephone from the jailhouse.

  • The market place was in Snow Hill on the public square near the jailhouse.

  • I ain't never peeped into a jailhouse or had handcuffs on these hands.

  • No Mam, I ain't never been in no jailhouse in all my days, and I sho ain't aimin' to de nothin' to make 'em put me dar now.

  • If one Nigger did kill another Nigger, dey tuk him and locked him in da jailhouse for 30 days to make his peace wid God.