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supermax

noun

Etymology

From super- + max (as in maximum security prison).

  1. borrowed from Max
  2. prefixed as supermax — “super + max”

Definitions

  1. A prison with the highest possible level of security.

    • As he sits today in Supermax, Powers had amputated his fingers, a testicle, his scrotum and his earlobes, has cut his Achilles tendon, and had tried several times to kill himself.

  2. Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.

    • Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA