floating academy

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Noun[edit]

floating academy (plural floating academies)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) Those ships on which criminals were subjected to transportation or (later) to hard labor.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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