do time

do time (third-person singular simple present does time, present participle doing time, simple past did time, past participle done time)

1. (colloquial) To spend time in prison (as a prisoner) or in the military (as a servicemember).

   My wife is unavailable for three months, as she's doing time for fraud.

   • 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day‎^[1]:

     Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
     In a Federal prison for his infamous crime

• be banged up
• be inside
• do bird
• do porridge
• live at Her Majesty's pleasure
• serve time

• do one's own time
• if you can't do the time, don't do the crime

• -motide, domite, mediot