Prison jargon — 134 phrases with translation into normal Russian

Evening at the cabin or something like that! That”s prison jargon in a nutshell. Well, you never know, you are still a versatile person and have a wide range of interests, what if you are also interested in you? Anyway. As they say, never say goodbye to money or prison.

Contents of the article:

• Everyday phrases from prison slang
  • Dictionary of thieves” jargon!
  • How to talk if you get bullied in prison language (fen)

But seriously, it is amazing how diverse folklore and experts from different areas of life and the world have penetrated so deeply into ordinary everyday life. So take a look:

Everyday phrases from prison slang

Dictionary of thieves” jargon!

• Pont, pint, slang, which is originally a prison slang, denotes an action performed to distract attention. Typically, this was deliberately intermittent and brazen behavior. The term comes from criminal slang, although it is very old, it began to be used in everyday life in prison even before the 1917 revolution.
• Encounter — to enter into an argument, to seek a quarrel.
• 6 is a famous example of language that goes beyond prison slang. It means “running minion”, a person who serves.
• Informants are scammers who come out of prison.
• Kipish or boiler. In prison slang, this word means a fight; in everyday language it means movement, confusion, displacement.
• A mower is a thousand rubles. This word originally appeared in prison slang back in Stalin”s times. First, a “mower” is someone who mutilates to avoid punishment.
• Brothers are friends, but in prison slang this means members of the same gang or group.
• Get it — believe the lie. The first applied to newcomers: they were not to be given the checks drawn up and issued to them upon admission to prison.
• To fail is to fail, not to cope. There is also a connotation of “shame” in prison slang (shit is a shame, and in everyday life there are often things that are simply bad and inappropriate).
• JAMB is a bug, an observation. It is interesting that in prison slang, “jam” is often called not the offense itself, but the person who committed it.
• Lawlessness is arbitrariness in everyday life and prison slang; they have moved away from the rules of the “life of thieves.”
• Kent — in comradely, friendly and prison slang, “by definition” an accomplice or a living person.
• A party in ordinary life is a party, or a group of people who are united by something, but in prison they are suddenly slaves for a fight.
• “Man” is a friend or designation for a male person. Interestingly, linguists disagree on the origins of the language. Some believe it originated with the male subculture of the 1950s, while others consider it prison slang.
• It uses chemistry to create something from everyday life in prison.
• Rabbit, Rabbit — enough, enough, enough stopping.
• HAP — to steal, in prison slang means to get drunk and drink.
• Bullshit — true, false, nonsense.
• Worries — in everyday life most often means meaningless conversation (“flapping your wings about all sorts of nonsense”); in prison, it usually means “lying.”
• Kick in the bucket and give up on death.
• Dog — quarrel.
• Abandon — to abandon and run away.
• Attack — in everyday life usually means a purchase; in prison, it means “to change clothes for more decent ones.” Watchmaker — Showing off, acting for show.
• Smoking — in everyday life, this is usually “seduction” in a romantic or erotic sense; in prison, it”s slang for “cheating.”
• Receiving — coming to one”s senses and clarifying one”s awareness.
• An excuse is a stunning reason, a pretense, for doing or not doing something.
• Breaking — In everyday life, this word is used in various senses, and its meanings are opposite. “Break” means “to fail,” and, conversely, it can mean “to get something” (for example, “Today I”ll do something with the girl I broke up with”). In prison slang, getting something can only mean one thing: “I”m not getting anything.”
• Not shiny — doesn”t work, doesn”t suit.
• To confuse — is deception.
• Swap — exchange.
• Trembling — trembling with excitement, with fear.
• Fake — fiction, deception. Most often used in connection with a document or information.
• A dangling noodle is lying.
• Muscular men are the term for “muscle men.” This term originally originated in prison slang, but is now widely used in advertising copy, and its stigma has been completely removed.
• Download rights — to get your way. In everyday life, it”s usually applied to a thick-skinned person who gives in unfairly (indeed, they don”t have the right to what they want), but in prison slang, the term has a more positive connotation: to seek justice.
• To nag — in everyday life, it”s most often said with the promise of “annoying” or “pressuring” people. In prison slang, “nag” is usually understood as “begging for a conversation.”
• Hard work is hard work.
• To talk nonsense means to lie and pretend.
• A friend of the board of directors—in everyday life, it means someone well known to everyone in the company; in prison slang, it means a seasoned criminal who”s not their first time committing a crime.
• Turn around—mess. In everyday life, it often means “live and wait” (“change your mind before the holidays and then decide,” “swap your friend”s job”).
• Jerk is slang for a prisoner who is a fool in everyday life and who is diligent and unoccupied in prison.
• Read also:

100 French catchphrases with Russian translations Here are 100 catchphrases in French. Why do you need them? Perhaps to better learn French: each catchphrase is easy there are also many words that mean nothing to ordinary people outside of prison. These are all sorts of abbreviations, coarsening of existing acronyms, and designations of places of incarceration. For example:

Kum is the head of the operations department.

• BUR, driller, PKT, packer — high-security barracks.
• Bugor — chief of staff.
• Shkonka — beds.
• Shnyr — sweeper.
• OLP — camp administration department.
• Bell — last day of imprisonment.
• Guarantee, roof — general rationing.
• Party — mixing and fighting. In everyday life, cards are “hung out/shuffled.”
• Darnyak — Toilet.
• Addendum — an additional term.
• Coma — peephole in the cell door.
• Gargos — beggars (probably of French origin).
• Mursarka — face.
• And many other terms that in real life you only want to read about for fun and never practice.

How to talk if they bully you in prison slang (fené)

How to talk if you get bullied in prison language (fen)