penitentiary - to qualify as a penitentiary, it must be a large, maximum security prison. the word, penitentiary is from the latin, penitent, which means to repent, be sorry for, or pay for one's mistakes. Its Latin root is: paenitent - repentent. prison jail hoosegow the big house deadlock lockdown the block the slammer stoney lonesome con college club fed calaboose the hole the joint the clink jailhouse
Yuhto was wrongly convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to fifteen years in Schelgar Penitentiary of the State of California, an enormous, poorly maintained maximum security prison. (paraphrased - from the novel, Deadlock, by Aida Saki and Takashina Yuu)
A common shelter that provides living accomodations for many African-Americans of our community.
"I'm finna be hittin' up some brothers in the penitentiary later. Dey got dabest fried chicken there!" (spoken in Ebonics - the common vernacular of the black)
when you have violent anal sex with a someone as though you were in jail. this is usually done without consent and without a condom. it often involves the transmission of STDS especially HIV
once Ndu walked into cell block D, he knew he was going to get it penitentiary style -- now he has AIDS;
at the rape party, everyone was getting it penitentiary style
A man who has been incarserated in the penitenary who upon release will have sex with anything that moves. 2. A 99 percent chance a fat woman will get sex.
"Of course that fat girl is going to get laid, he just got out of jail, he's got peniteniary penis.". "I don't care what she looks like, I got penitentiary penis"..
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.