All lockup synonyms
lock·up
L l noun lockup
- penitentiary — a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- cooler — A cooler is a container for keeping things cool, especially drinks.
- pokey — a jail
- prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- clink — If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
- slammer — a person or thing that slams.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
- detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
- calaboose — a prison; jail