serve time

English

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Verb

serve time (third-person singular simple present serves time, present participle serving time, simple past and past participle served time)

  1. (idiomatic) To be confined in prison or a similar institution, typically for wrongdoing that violates the law.

Translations
to be in prison — see do time
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