| Main Entry: | lockup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
Synonyms: |
calaboose, clink, cooler, hoosegow, penitentiary, pokey, prison, slammer |
| Main Entry: | cell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small room, container |
Synonyms: |
alcove, antechamber, apartment, bastille, booth, burrow, cage, cavity, chamber, cloister, closet, compartment, coop, crib, crypt, cubicle, den, dungeon, hold, hole, keep, lockup, nook, pen, receptacle, recess, retreat, stall, tower, vault |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive assurance |
Synonyms: |
all sewn up, authoritativeness, belief, certitude, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, definiteness, dogmatism, faith, firmness, indubitableness, inevitability, lock*, lockup, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, setup, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure bet, sure thing, surefire, sureness, surety, trust, validity, wrap-up |
Antonyms: |
ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, questionableness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | coop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pen |
Synonyms: |
birdcage, cage, corral, enclosure, hutch, lock-up, mew, pound |
| Main Entry: | jail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for incarceration |
Synonyms: |
bastille, black hole, brig, bullpen, can*, cell, clink, cooler, detention camp, dungeon, house of correction, inside*, jailhouse, joint*, lockup, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, rack, reformatory, slammer, solitary*, stir*, stockade, up the river |
| Main Entry: | penitentiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
Synonyms: |
big house, campus, can*, college, cooler, correctional institution, inside*, joint*, lockup, pen*, penal institution, prison, reformatory, slammer, stockade |
| Main Entry: | prison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence for incarcerating criminals |
Synonyms: |
G, bastille, can*, clink, confinement, cooler, dungeon, guardhouse, jail, keep, lockup, pen*, penal institution, penitentiary, reformatory, slammer, statesville, stockade, up the river |
| Main Entry: | penal institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correctional facility |
Synonyms: |
POW camp, brig, concentration camp, dungeon, house of detention, jail, labor camp, lockup, military prison, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisoner-of-war camp, slammer, stockade |
| Main Entry: | drunk tank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cell for drunken prisoners |
Synonyms: |
detention cell, holding cell, jail cell, lockup, tank |
| Main Entry: | police station |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | headquarters for law enforcement |
Synonyms: |
calaboose, lockup, police headquarters, station house |