star up
English
Verb
star up (third-person singular simple present stars up, present participle starring up, simple past and past participle starred up)
- (UK, transitive) To transfer (an incarcerated juvenile offender) to an adult prison earlier than the usual age of 18 or 21.
- 2011, Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (page 189)
- So he lost it all when he got starred up: sent to adult prison.
- 2016, Yvonne Jewkes, Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett, Handbook on Prisons (page 534)
- Under 18s can occasionally be moved to the adult estate through a process known in the system as 'starring up'. Fewer than ten under 18s were moved each year between 2010 and 2012 and none in 2013.
- 2011, Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (page 189)