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单词 juvie
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Definition of juvie in English:

juvie

nounPlural juvies ˈdʒuːviˈjo͞ovē
informal
  • 1A youth, especially one involved in disorder or criminal offences.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is the juvie from the wrong side of the tracks and she is the rich kid.
    • It was said that the oldest boy, Steven, was in jail, and that the three younger boys had all seen the inside of the juvie hall.
    • This documentary reunites a group of Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who once participated in a juvie peace retreat together.
    • In one of these alternate universes, I was run down at Southdale on Monday afternoon by two juvies hotrodding diagonally through the middle of a parking lot.
    • That was one of the talents I - as Jake, never Andrew - had acquired over the two years of captivity, both in the juvie circuit and out.
    • Steve and his girl engage in some backwards drag racing with some other juvies and get pestered by the cops to, ‘Cool it.’
    Synonyms
    offender, wrongdoer, malefactor, lawbreaker, culprit, criminal
  • 2US mass noun A detention centre or court for juvenile offenders.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the start of the film she is just getting out of juvie and immediately returns to her street corner to continue selling.
    • But instead of doing actual work, Dylan decides instead to read Sky a poem he wrote while he was in juvie.
    • My son Jack Junior gets out of juvie after being there for five freakin' years!
    • She went to juvie 2 times and got arrested too many times.
    • The latest is that he actually did a stint at a juvie hall for breaking into a CD store.
    • Kids I knew from the neighborhood spent time in juvie.
    • I went to juvie a few times but I always ended up back on the streets.
    • I don't want him coming back here after he's out of juvie and, you know, being bitter and angry.
    • As for the bass player, his years in juvie had given him a fearlessly badass certainty.
    • Asked by an officer what he was thinking, he replied: "I'm going to go to juvie."
    • At the very least, your court record from juvie could register you as a criminal for life, in the eyes of educators and employers.
    • She'd been to juvie, was living on her own by 16, had been banned from some of the clubs, and partied with the rock stars that rolled through town.
    • Lee shrugged, "He just got out of Juvie."
    • He progresses from juvie to prison, and from prison to full-fledged gangster.
    • Juvenile systems would only allow these kids to have possibly one or two years behind juvie bars and then out on the street.

Origin

1940s: abbreviation of juvenile.

Definition of juvie in US English:

juvie

nounˈjo͞ovē
informal
  • 1A youth, especially one involved in disorder or criminal offenses.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was said that the oldest boy, Steven, was in jail, and that the three younger boys had all seen the inside of the juvie hall.
    • This documentary reunites a group of Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who once participated in a juvie peace retreat together.
    • Steve and his girl engage in some backwards drag racing with some other juvies and get pestered by the cops to, ‘Cool it.’
    • In one of these alternate universes, I was run down at Southdale on Monday afternoon by two juvies hotrodding diagonally through the middle of a parking lot.
    • That was one of the talents I - as Jake, never Andrew - had acquired over the two years of captivity, both in the juvie circuit and out.
    • He is the juvie from the wrong side of the tracks and she is the rich kid.
    Synonyms
    offender, wrongdoer, malefactor, lawbreaker, culprit, criminal
  • 2US A detention center or court for juvenile offenders.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The latest is that he actually did a stint at a juvie hall for breaking into a CD store.
    • At the start of the film she is just getting out of juvie and immediately returns to her street corner to continue selling.
    • I don't want him coming back here after he's out of juvie and, you know, being bitter and angry.
    • At the very least, your court record from juvie could register you as a criminal for life, in the eyes of educators and employers.
    • My son Jack Junior gets out of juvie after being there for five freakin' years!
    • Juvenile systems would only allow these kids to have possibly one or two years behind juvie bars and then out on the street.
    • She'd been to juvie, was living on her own by 16, had been banned from some of the clubs, and partied with the rock stars that rolled through town.
    • Asked by an officer what he was thinking, he replied: "I'm going to go to juvie."
    • He progresses from juvie to prison, and from prison to full-fledged gangster.
    • As for the bass player, his years in juvie had given him a fearlessly badass certainty.
    • But instead of doing actual work, Dylan decides instead to read Sky a poem he wrote while he was in juvie.
    • I went to juvie a few times but I always ended up back on the streets.
    • Lee shrugged, "He just got out of Juvie."
    • Kids I knew from the neighborhood spent time in juvie.
    • She went to juvie 2 times and got arrested too many times.

Origin

1940s: abbreviation of juvenile.

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