jug

jug
I. n
prison. This term from the beginning of the 19th century is usually part of the phrases 'in jug' or 'in the jug'. It proba-bly derives from 18th-century dialect jougs, meaning stocks or pillory (from the French joug, meaning yoke), rather than from jug as a container of liquid. In modern usage the term is jocular.
II. vb
1.
also jug up
British
to imprison. From the noun jug.
2.
also jug out or jug up American to drink, usually to excess. The phrases are probably influenced by the categorisation 'jug wine', denoting cheap wine bought in large containers, e.g. by students and other drinkers of modest means.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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