peter

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpiːtə/]

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1. peter (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A safe.

Example: It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.

2. peter (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A prison cell.

Example: […] the ceremony of 'slopping out', breakfast, across to the main library from nine till half-past eleven, back to my peter for the mid-day meal and two hours' break, then the library again till five o'clock when tea was brought round and the cell door locked for the night.

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