MISFIT - boutique clothing store for young women *(for continuity; suggested by "Brisfit")

MISTAKE - what a kleptomaniac does

MISSING - I'm sorry, Mr. Shaw, the wrong note just came out... [explanatory note:that's Robert, not George Bernard)

MISTLETOE - just haul that Atlas ICBM over here, guys

MYSTERY - former President of South Korea [I didn't make that one up, but I don't have a citation for it]

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not to mention

MOSQUITO - I had such a good time in Ecuador, I wish I could go back there

misheard: rustle cattle
mistrial; jump bail
contrail: what the bloodhound follows
Hoover dam: to curse a vacuum in England
Beowulf: a stinky canine

Isis: me, sibling

SOY MILK - leche introducing itself

(not mine originally but good enough to share)

Pasteurize milk: A cow walking by

drag: the easiest way to walk a snake.
slovenly: how every wife thinks her husband dresses.

Did we use a variant of this one yet?

ASTEROID - Addison's Disease (no hydrocortisone)

SINECURE - I've lost my distaste for trigonometry

constable: where prisoners keep their horses
convex: to irritate prisoners
design: no talking at the hearing institute

CONSTRAIN - how you get to Sing Sing

CONCORD - binds the chain gang together

CONFABULATION - Aesop the Felon submits his alibi

CON VOYAGE - farewell greeting to your friend who's leaving for Australia

CONFLAGRATION - You're only allowed one pennant per cell block

...We could make a whole new thread out of these!

CONCENTRATION - The Prisoners' meals cost only a penny


Happy Thanksgiving, all !

conceal: an imprisoned pinniped

CONTRAIL - what a bloodhound does

[Oops; you did that one last August 27. Instead try
CONTRACT - where they're planning to build that new prison]

contract: religious leaflet for the born-again prisoner

CONNOTE -
1. prisoner's IOU
2. taking classes behind bars
2. what's sung by the Sing-Sing choir

contour: "Here's your cell, there's the kitchen and mess hall, there's the library. Don't go near the wall...."

CANTATA -
BEFORE: Indian industrial magnate found guilty
AFTER: My sentence is up, and I'm outa here!

constrain: the most common ailment on a chain gang

contact - they had a prisoner install the carpet

DYSAUTONOMIA = That's not my car!

DECORATE -
"Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink..."

DEHYDRATE Turn back into Dr Jekyll

AGONIZE - to disarm

DISMISS Insulting a maiden or or marrying her.

converse: inmate poetry

concourse:an inmate's meal, or
a rehabilitation class for prisoners
conasta: variation of the game played outside the pen.
contort: a prisoner's civil case
conceit: the electric chair

CONSTABLE - the prison roster in Excel format
(and two or three others)

[edit: dang typos]

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Concave- solitary
Concession - inmate group therapy
Condiments - inmates on psych ward
Condor- is barred & locked
Confabulation - answer to 'what're ya in for?'

CONCRETE Locked up in a Greek island

CONRAD The coolest prisoner

CONSANGUINEOUS When all your kinfolk are locked up with you for marrying each other's sisters. (OK in Kentucky)

quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:
contact - they had a prisoner install the carpet

contact
Avoiding upsetting other prisoners.

convoyed: an empty prison

quote:

Originally posted by Proofreader:
convoyed: an empty prison

Or giving the prisoner a laxative.

conflagration: one banner per prisoner
concocted: inmate incest
conceded: how they planted their garden

consolation: Prisoner's sun bed.

conformation: a line-up
consist: prison bed sore
contrail; what the bloodhound follows to find an escapee

confirm: a prison industry

concavity: what the prison dentist fills
concentrate: wage scale for prison work
concurrent prison electricity, often wired to chairs
distemper make steel softer
tamper; install a female's menstrual device

DISAVOW - make fun of my oath

DISCARD - what they're doing to Fat Albert

DISCOGRAPHY - a picture catalog of gears

disavowal: make fun of the alphabet

Distill Unplow a field

disseminate When she douches right after you finish

Progress: opposite of Congress
infantile: floor covering made from babies
teetotal: golf score

debunk: toss out of bed
debrief: strip naked

condense: overcrowded prison

Constrain A prisoner's hernia

conscript: TV prison movie

display: work

remain: No. 1 - again
repugnant: dog-like again
rescued: off-line again
reversed: wrote new lyrics
rebelled: rang again
refuse: rejoin
relevant: abscond again
relate: tardy again
repulse: get the heart going again
reserve: second service

remember: need I go on?

Ever the pedant.

I'm going to reserve this e DIS-game thread for DIS- or DE- words, and put the others, like "regarding," under "redefinitions.""