jailcell

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A form of jail cell — A locked room to incarcerate an inmate in prison.

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Meanings

nounjailcell (plural jailcells)

plural jailcells

  1. alternativeAlternative form of jail cell.

    Grattafiori moved to have his jailcell statements suppressed, […]

    1996, West's Hawaii Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court, Intermediate Court of Appeals, volume 79, page 11
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    The elevator arrived with a wheeze — one of those old-time jailcell-looking cages.

    1983, Carolina Quarterly, volumes 36-37, page 87

    But who now languished in a jailcell with a split pate while his foe sped away into the night?

    2013, Brian Panhuyzen, The Sky Manifest, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 134
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