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'Orange Is The New Black' Season 3: Your Guide To Prison Slang And Lingo Used In The Netflix Original Series

Your Guide To Orange Is The New Black's Litchfield Lingo
Daniel Welsh

After a long year of waiting, the doors of Litchifield Penitentiary are about to be thrown open once again, when the new series of ‘Orange Is The New Black’ finally arrives on Netflix this Friday.

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Picking up from where the dramatic climax of series two left off, 14 brand new episodes are coming our way later in the week, which means it’s time to swot up on all things ‘OINTB’, starting with the prison lingo.

Over the past two seasons, the weird and wonderful inmates have helped open our eyes and broaden our vocabularies, with their unique turns of phrase and slang terms.

To help you brush up before switching off your phone, bolting the doors and getting comfortable, so you can get through as much of series three as you can this weekend, we’ve put together this helpful guide to all of the new slang that ‘Orange Is The New Black’ has brought into our world...

'Orange Is The New Black': Your Guide To The Slang
'SHU'(01 of14)
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sh-oo (noun)Abbreviation of 'secure housing unit', where prisoners are sent for solitary confinement, should their behaviour get out of hand (or, in Piper's case, should she choose to dance to Kelis's 'Milkshake' with a fellow inmate). (credit:Netflix)
'Dandelion'(02 of14)
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dan-dee-lye-on (noun)A term of endearment for your prison wife, particularly if she - like Piper - is "pretty and yellow". (credit:wifflegif/Netflix)
'Shot'(03 of14)
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shot (noun)A write-up from a guard, for an inmate's bad behaviour. Nothing to do with tequila, unfortunately. (credit:Netflix)
'The Golden Girls'(04 of14)
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thuh-goh-l-den-ger-ls (noun)Not just an entertaining sitcom from the 1980s, also the name for a group of elderly inmates. (credit:Netflix)
'Pornstache'(05 of14)
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porns-tash (noun)Derogatory term for a corrupt prison officer, whose facial hair looks like it belongs in 1970s pornography. (credit:chapman-and-vause.tumblr.com)
'Pie-Throw'(06 of14)
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pye-throe (verb)The ultimate act of commitment, when you want to prove to the world that somebody is your prison wife. (credit:Netflix)
'Lesbianing'(07 of14)
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lezz-bee-ann-ing (verb)The act of being a lesbian, as coined by Pennsatucky. (credit:fyeahorangeisthenewblack.tumblr.com/Netflix)
'Knifes'(08 of14)
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nye-fs (verb)Not to be confused with 'knifes (noun)', which - as pointed out by Big Boo here - is not a word. (credit:Netflix)
'Gaggle'(09 of14)
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gah-gul (noun)The collective term for a group of nuns. (credit:Netflix)
Chicken(10 of14)
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chi-kun (noun)The ultimate symbol of hope... or, arguably, boredom. (credit:Netflix)
Toy Story(11 of14)
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toy-storr-eee (noun)As told by Morella, a film about "a cowboy, and he's like 'the king of the castle', and then this astronaut shows up, and he tries to take over. So the cowboy attempts to murder him, but instead, the astronaut is held hostage by this evil psychopath, and the cowboy has to rescue him". O...K. (credit:Netflix)
Duct Tape(12 of14)
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duc-tay-p (noun)Not just for taping up wires and 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' fun, duct tape can also help you fashion a fetching pair of prison sandals, modeled here by the incomparable Laverne Cox. (credit:wifflegif.com/OINTB)
'Taco Night'(13 of14)
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tak-koh-nye-t (noun)The light at the end of a very dark tunnel. (credit:thefw.com/Netflix)
'Taylor Swift'(14 of14)
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tay-lerr-siff-t (noun)Probably not what you want to be called when you're trying to look tough in front of your new fellow inmates. Good pop star, though... (credit:Jason Merritt/LP5 via Getty Images)

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