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| jails | |
| 1. n. plural of jail |  |
| jail | |
| 1. n. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | |
| 2. n. Confinement in a jail. | |
| 3. n. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). | |
| 4. n. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined. | |
| 5. n. (computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance. | |
| 6. v. To imprison. | |
