weigh off

verb

To sentence (a prisoner).

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Meanings

verbweigh off (third-person singular simple present weighs off, present participle weighing off, simple past and past participle weighed off)

present singular third person weighs off · participle present weighing off · participle past weighed off · past weighed off

  1. UKslangtransitiveTo sentence (a prisoner).

    If he is a prisoner from one of the Higher Courts he will probably arrive some time after 5 p.m.; if he has been 'weighed off' at 'the Bailey' or London Sessions he will probably come in a police van […]

    2013, Terence Morris, Pauline Morris, Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison, page 102
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