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Prison slang has existed as long as there have been crime and prisons; in Charles Dickens' time it was known as "thieves' cant". Words from prison slang often eventually migrate into common usage, such as "snitch", "ducking", and "narc". Terms can also lose meaning or become obsolete such as "slammer" and "bull-derm." [2]
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(Kite is prison slang for sending a message) In 1998, Szuberla was a volunteer DJ for a hip-hop show "Lights Out" on WMMT , an Appalachian region radio station when he received hundreds of letters from inmates transferred into nearby Wallens Ridge State Prison , the region's newest prison, built to prop up the shrinking coal economy.
Fenya (Russian: феня, IPA: [ˈfʲenʲə]) or fen'ka (Russian: фенька, IPA: [ˈfʲenʲkə]) is a Russian cant language originated among the travelling peddlers and currently used in the Russian criminal underworld and among former detainees of Russian penal establishments ("prison slang").
Brazy "Brazy" is another word for "crazy," replacing the "c" with a "b." It can also be used to describe someone with great skill or who has accomplished something seemingly impossible.
Sex and relationship experts provide a guide for how to talk dirty in bed without offending or alarming your partner, including examples and guides.
Rock spider, Rock-Spider, rockspider, or variations thereof, may refer to: . Rockspider (1999 book) a true crime book by Vikki Petraitis; Afrikaner (derogatory slang) in South African English, see List of South African slang words
[15] While those more structured organizations, known as Security Threat Groups, [16] will have a variety of structures, Tango members in a particular area of a correctional facility will elect a silla (Spanish for "chair"), to speak for that area of the facility [17] and will not have a constitution that governs how the members must behave.