Words for the amount of time a person has to spend in jail—for example, “He’s in for a ten-year ________.”
| SENTENCE | 8 |
| STINT | 4 |
| STRETCH | 4 |
| TERM | 4 |
| HITCH | 2 |
| HAUL | 1 |
![]()
DARE Data Summary by Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.