Clink Street, London. Site of Clink Prison, one of England's oldest prisons and origin of the slang "In Clink". Now home to a museum of the prison, the remains of Winchester Palace and a Starbucks.
Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions. It is a form of anti-language.[1] Many of the terms deal with criminal behavior, incarcerated life, legal cases, street life, and different types of inmates. Prison slang varies depending on institution, region, and country.[2] Prison slang can be found in other written forms such as diaries, letters, tattoos, ballads, songs, and poems.[2] Prison slang has existed as long as there have been crime and prisons; in Charles Dickens' time it was known as "thieves' cant". Words from prison slang often eventually migrate into common usage, such as "snitch", "ducking", and "narc". Terms can also lose meaning or become obsolete such as "slammer" and "bull-derm."[2]
^Mayr, A. 2012. Prison Language. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
^ abcNewman, John G.; Dossena, Marina; Łodej, Sylwester (2015-12-31). Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 4). Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce.
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2017. Smith, Noel 'Razor' (2015). The criminal alphabet : an A-Z of prisonslang (1 ed.). London: Penguin Books. p. 47. ISBN 9780141038568. Clarke, Peter...
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loose fibre ends Harming or killing with gas, see Poison gas Gassing, prisonslang for throwing feces or other bodily fluids at someone Talking diffusely...
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