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jailbaits

jailbaits is the plural 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 jailbaits

What is jailbaits the plural of?
Jailbaits is the plural of jailbait.

Words near jailbaits in the dictionary

  1. jail-birds
  2. jail-fever
  3. jailable
  4. Jailam
  5. jailbait
  6. jailbaits
  7. jailbird
  8. jailbirds
  9. jailbreak
  10. jailbreaker
  11. jailbreakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jailbaits (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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