(by extension, slang) In prison.
The Archive has over two hundred of them — men, women and children who spent years behind the wire and yet lived to tell us their stories . . . and the stories of those people they do not want forgotten.
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(slang) In a prison camp or refugee camp.
Some were to find themselves behind the wire for virtually the entire war.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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