Prison vs. Slammer

Prisonnoun

A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

Prisonnoun

(uncountable) Confinement in prison.

Prisonnoun

(colloquial) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.

Prisonverb

(transitive) To imprison.

Prisonnoun

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

Prisonnoun

Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

Prisonverb

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

Prisonverb

To bind (together); to enchain.

Prisonnoun

a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

Prisonnoun

a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

Prison

A prison, also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up or remand center is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.

Slammernoun

One who, or that which, slams.

Slammernoun

Jail, prison.

Slammernoun

A tequila cocktail.

Slammernoun

One who takes part in slam-dance.

Slammernoun

One who competes in a poetry slam.

Slammernoun

In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.

Slammernoun

A slam-door train.

Slammernoun

a person who closes things violently;

Slammernoun

a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)