| Ant | Abigail Norton Turner |
| Basic | Removal of privileges |
| Bax | Go away |
| ’Bin | Cell – short for cabin, the cells of the Spike |
| Bingo | A riot |
| Bug group | Resistance group (from German Bug meaning prow, strut) |
| Castle | Holloway Prison |
| Collar | A strutter parent on day release, allowed to work with their wages paid to the state so as to repay their debt to society sooner |
| Cons | Convicts; what strutters call all non-strutter prisoners |
| Dixam pas | Leave us alone |
| Doing a six | Serving a six-year sentence |
| Ghetto penthouse | Top-floor cell |
| Happy Hour | The hour before Correction |
| Heritage crime | A previously undetected crime committed by your parents or grandparents for which you are held responsible |
| Hunchies | Non-strutters |
| IR/Indoor Relief | Prison-organized work |
| Jammer | Home-made knife |
| Jug up | Meals |
| Ladies/Ladies of the Castle | Prisoners in Holloway |
| Molopaa | Dickhead |
| Na | Hey! How are you? |
| Naa | Hey! Good, and you? |
| Pat down | Body search |
| Pol-drone | Police drone |
| POs | Prison officers/guards |
| Rub down | Cell search |
| Screws | Prison officers |
| SHU/bloc/box | Single Housing Unit – solitary confinement |
| Solo | A strutter in prison without any family |
| Spike | The family wing of Her Majesty’s Prison London |
| Spikeout | On release or escape from HMP London. Anything that is ‘outside’ |
| Strap/handle | The tag worn by strutters |
| Strutter | Someone found guilty of heritage crime. The term comes from the altered posture and gait of those wearing the plastic and steel tag, placed in the small of the back |
| Village | Pentonville |
| Villagers | Prisoners in Pentonville |