Synonyms of slammers

slammers

noun

plural of slammer

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

the Mafia capo ultimately landed in the slammer on a conviction of income tax evasion

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slammers

In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

And the Padres, after adding at the trade deadline, have their assortment of door slammers all locked up for the foreseeable future. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025