prisonguard

See also: prison guard

English

Etymology

prison +‎ guard

Noun

prisonguard (plural prisonguards)

  1. Alternative form of prison guard
    • 1987, Arctos, Volumnes 21-23, page 29
      During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.
    • 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: a comedy, page 170:
      And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.
    • 2009, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life, link:
      The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.
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