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jailcell

jailcell is the alternative form of jail cell.

Meaning of jail cell

Noun

jail cell (plural jail cells)

  1. A locked room to incarcerate an inmate in prison.
    • "Hitler's obsession with cars extended to ordering a new Mercedes from his jail cell in Landsberg prison that picked him up on his release in 1924."2006, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 90

Forms of jailcell

pluraljailcells

Questions about jailcell

What is jailcell the alternative form of?
Jailcell is the alternative form of jail cell.

Words near jailcell in the dictionary

  1. jailbreakers
  2. jailbreaking
  3. jailbreaks
  4. jailbroke
  5. jailbroken
  6. jailcell
  7. jailcells
  8. jaildom
  9. jailed
  10. jailee
  11. jailees

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