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plural of jug
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(Entry 1 of 2)
1
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
- some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug
Synonyms for jugs
- bastilles,
- big houses
- [slang],
- bridewells,
- brigs,
- calabooses,
- cans,
- clinks
- [slang],
- coolers,
- coops,
- guardrooms,
- hocks,
- holds,
- hoosegows,
- jailhouses,
- jails,
- joints
- [slang],
- lockups,
- nicks
- [British slang],
- penitentiaries,
- pens,
- pokeys
- [slang],
- prisons,
- quods
- [British slang],
- slammers,
- slams,
- stirs
- [slang],
- stockades,
- tolbooths
- [Scottish]
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2
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
- put a jug of milk on the table
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jugs
verbpresent tense third-person singular of jug
Synonyms & Antonyms of jugs (Entry 2 of 2)
to put in or as if in prison
- the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them
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