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as in jails
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug
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as in bottles
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
put a jug of milk on the table
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as in interns
to put in or as if in prison
the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them
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Recent Examples of jugs
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Among them is José, a 74-year-old retired surgeon holding two small gallon jugs.
—Carrie Kahn, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
That includes a sturdy scraper or snow brush, a flashlight with extra batteries, blankets or a sleeping bag, water jugs, a first aid kit and essential medications, tire chains, a tow strap, jumper cables, reflectors and a battery radio.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2025
Prairie Farms is recommending all jugs purchased at Woodman's with the DEC08 code date and PLT19-145 plant code be thrown out or returned for a refund.
—Jacob Wilt, jsonline.com, 28 Nov. 2025
For plastic milk jugs, the recovery rate is around 91% -- significantly higher than the rate for Tetra Pak cartons (19%) and milk containers made of other composite materials (roughly 29%).
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 27 Nov. 2025
With the initial $250,000 in emergency funds, the county hired water trucks for well users to fill large jugs.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
At each end of the table were enormous jugs of excellent cider, and their host had four fine and radiantly healthy daughters, aged 16 to 20, whom Brillat-Savarin admired at every turn.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
On the tray were sugar bowls and milk jugs, and the handles of the jug were his ears.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
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The family slept on thin mattresses on the floor and hauled water in plastic jugs from a convenience store roughly 15 miles away, according to investigators.
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Some of those people have been arrested directly by ICE agents while others have been arrested by other law enforcement agencies, placed on immigration holds within county jails and then arrested by ICE while being held.—
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Stewart visited three county jails in 2024 and found major lapses in medical and mental health care.—
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During the investigation, officers found liquor bottles hidden throughout the house, some of them empty, according to the release.—
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Modern Warrior’s notice about Friday’s recall of Modern Warrior Ready’s 60-count bottles doesn’t appear on its website, but is posted to the FDA site.—
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Foucault did not want simply to write a history of prisons but to produce an account of how power circulates in modern society—not merely through the carceral system but also in universities, medical institutions, the workplace, and the military.—
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The initiative currently runs three times a year at four California prisons.—
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Standing at 6-foot-5 and 225 pounds, Watson is a big-bodied righty who fits the mold of what the Red Sox have looked for in their pitchers over the past few years.—
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His side likely will be eager to reference five pitchers with AAVs of more than $32 million — Zack Wheeler, deGrom, Blake Snell, Gerrit Cole and Corbin Burnes — not to mention others above his midpoint.—
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Afwerki routinely imprisons his critics and political opponents and has implemented a policy of indefinite mandatory military and national service for residents, which human-rights watchdogs say amounts to slavery.—
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The wave of prison violence is happening despite the deployment of military and police forces in several penitentiaries.—
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
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Moments after we were seated, steaming glass cups of black tea were poured, and a brigade of small plates began to arrive.—
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Grated Pecorino Romano 48/8oz Shipper, packaged in plastic cups; lot numbers 1000570750, 1000572499 and 1000572514.—
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Locals roll out chairs, tables, grills, and coolers, turning the lot into a lively social hub.—
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In this arrangement, Pitts utilized the leftover shelves up top to store coolers and tote bags, so everything in the garage has its own storage home.—
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“Jugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jugs. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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