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No doubt, in the course of reading this book, you’ll find some slang words that aren’t in your everyday vocabulary and you’ll wonder what they mean, particularly as I’ve built up quite a following around the world, and I don’t want all my readers abroad to wonder what the hell I’m on about. It is a rough guide to prison terminology, which is sometimes used in the street but has probably originated from prison. Here’s an example of a judge being bamboozled by slang:

Prosecuting barrister: ‘M’lord, the defendant was masked up when he did the blag.’

Judge: ‘What is a “blag”?’

Prosecuting barrister: ‘A robbery, m’lord. The defendant had with him a sawn-off shooter.’

Judge: ‘Sorry to stop you again, but what is a “sawn-off shooter”?’

Prosecuting barrister: ‘A shotgun, m’lord. The defendant copped for being nicked.’

Judge: ‘What does that mean, “copped for being nicked”?’

Prosecuting barrister: ‘It means when he was caught, m’lord. The defendant’s previous form was a nine-stretch for robbery.’

Judge: ‘What does “stretch” mean?’

Prosecuting barrister: ‘It means time served, m’lord. I have the evidence here, m’lord … a blow-up doll.’

Judge: ‘Was that the deluxe blow-up doll, or the super silk lips deluxe blow-up doll?’

Well, perhaps it didn’t quite happen like that, but as I’ve asked for blow-up dolls when I’ve taken hostages in the past, I couldn’t resist it.

Arse-bandit/shirt-lifter/ cacky-stabber/backdoor burglar Homosexual
Banged up/ behind the door Locked in your cell
Baron Prisoner dealing in illicit items and making profit from it
Beast/nonce Sex case
Bible Moth Prisoner who can’t leave religion alone
Big Bird A long prison sentence
Big House Prison
Bird Serving a sentence
Blade Knife or cutting blade used in attack
Blag Robbery
Blagger Robber
Block/seg unit Prison within prison
Boss Friendly name given to prison officer
BoV Board of Visitors
Box Strongbox, impenetrable isolation cell
Brek Breakfast
Brown Heroin
Bruv Term used to express closeness to a fellow prisoner
Burglars Prison security team searching your cell
Burn Tobacco
Cabbaged Brain dead
Canister Head
Canteen Prison shop
Cat Category of prison (A, B, C or D)
CDM Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
Centre Main prison control room
Charva a person of limited intelligence who always wears sports labels, swears a lot and drinks too much
Chib Knife
Chivved up Stabbed or cut up by a chiv
Chokey Prison
Civvy Civilian worker/manufactured cigarette
Clink Prison, named after a prison called ‘Clink’
Con Convict
Cop for this Have some of this (usually said to person on receiving end of punishment beating)
Copped Caught
Crack/Craic/what’s the crack? The talk/What’s going on?
Crack on Hurry up
Crashed in Beat up
Cutting Relating to being slashed with a blade
Daddy Alpha male prisoner
Dear John/Jane A letter from your wife or girlfriend ending their relationship with you
Diamond Geezer A real good man
Dirty Protest Covering cell and yourself with your own excrement
Dis Disrespect
Div(vy) Stupid idiot
Doing time/bird Serving a prison sentence
Double up Two beds put into one cell that is designed for only one bed
Draw Cannabis or tobacco
Dropsy A gift from a soon-to-be-released prisoner
Duff The pudding part of a meal. ‘What’s for duff?’
Dump/Pony Having a crap
Frisk A bit of fun/body search
Gaff A place, such as a room or a house
Geezer A man
Ghosted Shipped out of a prison to another one very quickly
Grass Informant
Grey Bar Hotel Prison
Had it away Escaped
HMP Her Majesty’s Prison/Her Majesty’sPleasure; an indeterminate sentence for young prisoners
Hooch Home brew
Horsebox Prison transport of a secure nature
HQ Headquarters
HSPSCB High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board
Jail bird Ex-Convict who returns to prison
Jam role Parole
JR Judicial Review
JR’d Judges Remand
Judas hole/flap Spy hole in cell door for checking on prisoners without opening the door
Judge in Chambers Hearing in judge’s chambers, sometimes resulting in bail being granted
KB’d Knocked back for, refused something
Lag Convict
Lemon Nasty
Lifer Convict serving life imprisonment
Liquid cosh Injection of lardactyl, etc.
Make one Escape
Meat wagon Secure prison transport
Monster Evil person/sex case
Mule Person secreting drugs about their person and smuggling them into prison
MUFTI Squad Prison officers trained to handle unruly prisoners or riots (Minimum Use of Force and Tactical Intervention)
Nash on Hurry up
Nicked Put on report for committing an offence against prison rules
Nonce Sex case
Nutted off Sectioned off under the Mental Health Act
‘Now then’ A form of greeting
Old lag Old convict
Old school From the past with higher morals
One off A convict suicide/what a screw says when one con leaves the wing
Ov Where you are from
Pad Prison cell
Pad mate Cell-sharing prisoner
Paddy wagon Secure prison transport
Patches/Stripes Patches of bright yellow on a prisoner’s clothing to signify he is a former escapee
Pegger Smoker
Peter Cell (outside of prison it meant a ‘safe’)
Plug Hide something up your anus
POA Prison Officers Association
Porridge Serving time in prison
Puff Cannabis
QE Going Queen’s Evidence against your co-accused at trial
Receptions New prisoners entering prison regime
Recess The place where the sluice is, usually showers, sink, toilets, etc.
Segregation Unit (Seg Unit) prison within prison to keep you away from other prisoners
Served up Cut with a blade or served up punishment from a fellow con
Screw Prison officer – the crank machine, a form of useless labour, was introduced in the middle of the last century to make prison life tougher for those prisoners sentenced to hard labour. Male prisoners had to turn the handle 14,400 times a day, forcing four large cups or ladles through sand inside a drum. The number of revolutions was registered on the dial. The warder could make the task harder by tightening a screw, hence the slang word for prison warder
Shit and a shave/shit and a brek A short prison sentence
Shit up/dirty protest The act of covering yourself and your cell in your own excrement in protest over something
SHSA Special Hospitals Service Authority
Skin Cigarette rolling paper
Skin up Make a cigarette
Sky Pilot Vicar/Priest, etc.
Silent protest Not speaking a word
Slopping out The action of emptying a cell pot out into the sluice (outdated)
Smack Heroin
Smack-heads Junkies addicted to heroin
Snout Tobacco
Sorted Something’s been accomplished
Spin/turnover Have your cell searched by prison security
SSU Special Secure Unit
Stitched up Not being given your full quota of something
Strip cells Cells in which you were naked
SVO Special Visiting Order
Sweet Happy
Tailor-made Any branded cigarette
The Ones Ground floor cells
The Twos Cells on the first floor landing
Toe-to-toe Fight each other with fists
Top (guy) man Good person
Topped himself/herself Suicide
Turnkey Prison officer
Two and a brek Means two days and a morning left until release, etc.
Twos up Share your cigarette with me
Unlock Cell door opening to let convict out
UFF Ulster Freedom Fighter
VO Visiting Order
Wing A block full of cells
Wrapped up Tied up or taken care of
YP Young Prisoners
YOI Young Offenders Institute
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