SHU
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edit- Acronym of security housing unit.
- 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 200:
- He picked a fight on the yard and got himself put into the SHU the day before my release.
- Acronym of segregated housing unit.
- Acronym of special housing unit.
- Initialism of Scoville heat unit.
- (Canada) Acronym of special handling unit.
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edit- (security housing unit or special handling unit): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, hole, lockdown, pound, SCU, solitary confinement
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