[Ads-l] slap in, 'to place under confinement in (e.g., a jail.)'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not quite in OED, as far as I can tell.

1877 _Harrigan & Hart's Slavery Days Songster_ (N.Y.: A. J. Fisher) 37: Or
they'll slap us in the guard house.

JL
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