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Hellmarsh
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English
Etymology
en hell Belmarsh. Popularized by Jeffrey Archer, see quotations.
Proper noun
en slang derogatory en Belmarsh.
en w:Jeffrey Archer Billy Little w:A Prison Diary 2002 Macmillan 225 https://archive.org/details/prisondiary00arch/page/225/mode/1up 978-1-4050-2094-7 By this time tomorrow, you'll be sunning it up by the pool, or that's how Springhill will feel in comparison to Hellmarsh.
en-GB Ali Catterall TV tonight: Britain's worrying painkiller addiction The Guardian 2020-01-16 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/16/tv-tonight-michael-mosley-how-common-treatments-can-lead-to-addiction 0261-3077 “Hellmarsh”, as one anonymous prisoner puts it, sums up one of the UK’s most notorious jails nicely, where war criminals rub shoulders with convicted terrorists and gang members.
en Derogatory names for places