commissary berry
n.— «If she were in the prison’s general population, she would surely sprout “commissary berries”—inmates who glom on to anyone with a little cash who could buy them a $1.50 cheeseburger or an 87-cent Milky Way bar. “If she were with us, somebody’d be pushing up on her,” the inmate said.» —“Laying On Luxe For Paris” by Richard Johnson New York Post June 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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