weigh off

English

Verb

weigh off (third-person singular simple present weighs off, present participle weighing off, simple past and past participle weighed off)

  1. (transitive, UK, slang) To sentence (a prisoner).
    • 2013, Terence Morris, Pauline Morris, Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison, page 102:
      If he is a prisoner from one of the Higher Courts he will probably arrive some time after 5 p.m.; if he has been 'weighed off' at 'the Bailey' or London Sessions he will probably come in a police van […]
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