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jail bait

jail bait is the alternative spelling of jailbait.

Meaning of jailbait

Noun

jailbait (usually uncountable, plural jailbaits)

  1. (slang, usually) A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.
    • "The first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair."2009, The Economist, Charis Wilson, model and writer, died on November 20th, aged 95

Questions about jail bait

What is jail bait the alternative spelling of?
Jail bait is the alternative spelling of jailbait.

Words near jail bait in the dictionary

  1. Jaidon
  2. Jaidyn
  3. jaikie
  4. jaikies
  5. jail
  6. jail bait
  7. jail bars
  8. jail bird
  9. jail birds
  10. jail break
  11. jail breaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jail bait (page history and authors); jailbait (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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