prisonguard

See also: prison guard

English

Etymology

From 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.