Meaning

2 senses
  1. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)Synonym of juvenile hall (a youth detention centre).

    Jugendknast

    виправна колоніяvypravna kolonija

  2. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)A minor (youth); especially, synonym of juvenile delinquent.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Have you ever been in juvie?

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Translations

4 languages
Українська
youth detention centre:
Deutsch
youth detention centre:

Origin

From juvenile + -ie with elision; morphologically analogous to bougie = bourgeoisie + -ie/

From juvenile + -ie with elision; morphologically analogous to bougie = bourgeoisie + -ie/-y.

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Forms

plural: juvies

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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