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jailhouses

jailhouses is the plural of jailhouse.

Meaning of jailhouse

Noun

jailhouse (plural jailhouses)

  1. A building containing a prison.
    • “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.2024 March 28, Lauren del Valle and Allison Morrow, “Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison”, in CNN Business

Questions about jailhouses

What is jailhouses the plural of?
Jailhouses is the plural of jailhouse.

Words near jailhouses in the dictionary

  1. jailful
  2. jailfuls
  3. jailhouse
  4. jailhouse lawyer
  5. jailhouse lawyers
  6. jailhouses
  7. jailing
  8. jailings
  9. jailish
  10. jailkeeper
  11. jailkeepers

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