jailhouse

English

Etymology

From jail +‎ house.

Pronunciation

Noun

jailhouse (plural jailhouses)

  1. A building containing a prison.
    • 2024 March 28, Lauren del Valle and Allison Morrow, “Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.

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