prisonguard

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A form of prison guard — An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounprisonguard (plural prisonguards)

plural prisonguards

  1. alternativeAlternative form of prison guard.

    The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.

    2009, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life, link
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    During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.

    1987, Arctos, Volumnes 21-23, page 29

    And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.

    1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: a comedy, page 170

Origin

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APA

prisonguard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonguard

MLA

“prisonguard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonguard. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prisonguard,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonguard.

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