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GLOSSARY
ОглавлениеNo 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 |
