Synonyms of lockups

lockups

noun

plural of lockup

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• penitentiaries
• prisons
• brigs
• stockades
• pens
• coolers
• coops
• cages
• pokeys
• big houses
• nicks
• bastilles
• hocks
• jugs
• guardrooms
• dungeons
• slammers
• jailhouses
• clinks
• quods
• tanks
• bridewells
• joints
• cells
• tolbooths
• cans
• stirs
• hoosegows
• slams
• calabooses
• wards
• bull pens
• holds
• holes
• hulks
• gulags
• guardhouses
• concentration camps
• reformatories
• prison camps
• labor camps
• blocks
• keeps
• work camps
• reform schools
• glasshouses
• training schools
• stalags
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides