weigh off
English
Verb
weigh off
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To sentence (a prisoner).
- 2013, Terence Morris, Pauline Morris, Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison (page 102)
- If he is a prisoner from one of the Higher Courts he will probably arrive some time after 5 p.m.; if he has been 'weighed off' at 'the Bailey' or London Sessions he wlil probably come in a police van […]
- 2013, Terence Morris, Pauline Morris, Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison (page 102)