NEW YORK PRISON SLANG

This is only a small amount of the slang used in the prison system, there are new words and younger inmates in the system and the slang is changing everyday, different gangs with different language, (such as my blood page, this is a prime example of totally different use of words). If you know of any slang terms that I have not used please feel free to send it to me and I will update my page with it. Thanks Ed tupper89@geocities.com



A
Ace - Main Man
Ace - best friend/good friend
Assed Out - broke or tired
B
Badge - A correctional officer
Bamma - fake weed/weak weed
Beat - escape, steal from another, have something stolen
Beat Your Feet - Order by an officer for a prisoner to move out of an area
BI - business 
Bid or bit - conviction and/or sentence
Bing - special housing unit
Bird Head - stupid male/or female, usually used towards females
Birds on the Line - Warning that someone is listening to a conversation
Bitch ass pussy - means C.O. whom they don't like and is possibly on a hit list
Bitch-up - back down from any given situation
Blaze - cut or slice someone
Blocks - Cell Houses
Blunt - joint made with cigar
Boat - bus transfer of inmates
Bone - joint or cigarette
Bone yard - Family (conjugal) visiting area
Booty bandit - person who induces sex with same gender
Bounce - leave (same as jet) "Time for me to bounce"
Boss - An officer -- some say it is "sorry son of a bitch" spelled backwards
Box - tape and radio, special housing unit
Brick shit house - one with a fine shape (built like)
Broad - word used to a female 
Bugged out - one who acts crazy
Bug juice - medicine, kool aid
Bug out - acting abnormal
Bug report - report of prison psychiatrist
Bull - Guard
Bull Scare - Bluff
Bum wire - false information
Butch kid - aggressive youth
Butcher's Hook - Take a look
Buy - Buy - going to the commissary
C
Call list - drop by for interview dentist, doctor, ect
Cell gangster - tough guy when locked in, but chicken when locked out
Cellie - Cellmate
Champing - Removing tobacco from the Black & Mild cigar
Cheddar - money
Cheese Eater - An informer
Chester - Child molester
Chill out - be cool, calm down
Cho cha - private area of females
CI - cigarettes
Coming out your face wrong - saying stupid things
Commissary - two meaning (1) store in prison; (2) private area of females
C.O. - Correctional Officer
Cop - gain possession of
Cop out - admit to an act
Count - The institutional count, repeated at different times in the day. Everything stops while prison staff make sure no one is missing. 
           May be referred to as the "count time". In the federal system, an unscheduled count. May be referred to as "census count"
Cowboy - New officer. Spelled backwards, it's "yobwoc." "young, obnoxious, bastard we often con."
Crimey - fellow prisoner who was a member of one's gang or partner
C.R. - (Conditional Release) the release of an inmate before he serves his full sentence    
   under certain specific conditions set by the parole board. Failure to comply with the     
   conditions will result in returning to prison and finishing the full sentence
Crate - a carton of cigarettes
Crazy money - lots of money in commissary account
Crib or house - penthouse - inmate's cell
Cut up - suicide, cutting your wrists
D
Dead Prez - money
Dime(piece) - cute, fine, all that
Dime dropper - snitch
Ding him - Swing at him sneakingly
Dip the spot - Leave the area
Doing a pound - serving a five year sentence
Doorag - nylon head scarf for hair grooming (flattens hair)
Draft - transfer of inmates
Dropper - heating units to heat water (stinger)
Dumd - a lot/many 
Dyke - lesbian
E
Escape dust - Fog
Exit - leave 
F
Face Card -100 Dollar Bill
Fish - A new prisoner
Fish, Fishing - pass a note from one cell to next using a "fishing line" 
Fishing Line--thin piece a material with a weight on the end
Fish Row - Cells where new prisoners are placed
Five-O - means C.O
For the head - something to get high
Four minute job - Shower
Fresh meat - new person
Fruit Cake - faggot
G
Gallery - section of inmate living area, inside a block
Get over - get away with something
Good time - time taken off sentence
Goon squad - group of officers used to break up disturbances
Go up on - fight (throw your hands up)
Gotham City--New York City
H
Hack, police, man - correction officer
Hallkeeper - officer in charge of cell hall (block officer)
Hammed up - Getting Punked
Hamster, yam - black person
Handle it - take care of it, put up with it
Hanging - left waiting for someone
Hanging up - suicide, hanging themselves
Have a body - killed someone on the street 
Heart - guts
Hella - very
Hit - inmate came back from parole board and did not get parole
Hole - special housing
Holiday routine - movies, into the yard for inmates
Homeboy, homie, honcho - from the same hometown (neighborhood) or buddy
Homo, fagot - homosexual
Honkey - white person I got your back - I'll back you on this fight
Hump - sex
I
It's all gravy - it's all good
J
Jail house lawyer - inmate who is up on the law
Jail house punk - made a homosexual in prison
Jelly - Jealous
Jet - leave (same as bounce) "Time for me to jet"
Jitterbug - young gang fighter
Joint - penis knife, marijuana, institution
Jo-Mama - your mother ( derogatory)
Juice - power, persuasive sway as in political pull
Juice - information
Jump street - from the beginning
Jumping the gun - jumping to conclusion
K
Keeplock - disciplinary confinement
Kite--pass an unauthorized letter
L
Laws - Correctional officers.
Living Large - an inmate with lots of commissary, money and the latest fashions.
Loaf--Loaf of bread made with pureed veggies given as a disciplinary sanction
Lock Box - controls  which open and close the cells
Lock-down - When prisoners are confined to their cells.
Long green - lot of money
M
Madd - a lot/great amount
Mag - Correctional officer
Main squeeze - real good friends
Max out - to do your complete sentence
Mickie - new officers
Money - buttocks
My Bad - My fault
N
New Jack - new officer or inmate
Nose Candy - Cocaine
O
On the burn - denying someone or something
On the money - anything with perfect timing, looks, ect.
One the Wood, On the Beech-O, Johnson - term for penis
Onion - Ounce of Coke
Open date - date of release for parole, waiting for job
Oreo - black outside, white inside
Oscar Meyer - a hot guy who's fucking a lot (a big wiener that's on fire)
Ox - Razor Blade
P
Parle - chill
Penny Licker - do sexual things for money
Picks - lock picking tools usually made from nail files (burglary tool)
Play the pillow - go lay down and be quite
Police - Security staff
Put your shit in the street - tell your secrets to everyone
Q
Quail or Queen - passive homosexual
Queer - homo-faggot
R
Rap - talk
Rap sheet - arrest record
Rat--One who tells on others
Renege - go back on one's work or act
Rice & Bean - Pueto Rican
Rollers - squad
Rolling - rumble, fight
Round on me - ignore
Roscoe--a CO
Run it - give up that time, what's on your mind
Run off at the mouth - talking too much
S
Screw - Guard
Scribe - letter
Section - work area where inmates are assigned
Sell a wolf ticket - invitation to a fight
Set date - go home, paroled
Set the Drama - start an incident
Shank - Prison made weapon (used for stabbing)
Short - car
Short heist - pornography
Short ice - movies with lots of sex
Skyline--trick into believing
Slipping in the Dark - Getting Stabbed
Slop sink - end of each gallery where you get hot water
Slug - misbehavior report (ticket)
Smash - have sex
Square - Cigarette
State-o - any state property
Stuner - big man, things going on
Store - commissary
Strawberry - hoe
Street - any place outside facility
Son or Kid - two meaning (1) buddy, (2) fagot
Swag bag - canvas type pocketbook
T
Take it on a hop - get lost
The man - person with authority (officer)
Ticket - disciplinary report
Ticket Tron--CO who writes a lot or ticket server
Tip - head of a penis
Truck trap - Pit to check out bottom of delivery trucks
Turnkey - means C.O.
Twisted - messed up or drunk or high
Two counts running wild - two sentences to run consecutively
U
Uptight - nervous, scared
V 
W
Watergating - eaves dropping
What's poppin', crackin', good? - what's up? 
Whole nine yards - everything in detail
Word up - telling the truth
Writ - writ of habeas corpus
X 
Y
Yard - recreation area in facility or $100
You dissed me - disrespected me
Young blood - young person
You're always rounding - to  ignore or not give any rap
Yoked - Coked 
Z
Zip bid - zero minimum time set by judge ( ex: Zip-5, 0-5 years)
#
24/7 - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week constantly
4 piece -  A full set of restraints (cuffs, leg irons, waist, and security cover)
7-up - A correctional officer is approaching


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