Slangipedia - Slang Dictionary

1

a place where you get locked up and forced to eat mystery meat

I got sent to la pinta for skipping gym and eating the principal's lunch.

My cousin got locked in la pinta for throwing a desk at a teacher.

They said I had to stay in la pinta until I cleaned up the cafeteria floor.

2

a fancy word for a jail where you do push-ups until you’re dizzy

They made me do 100 push-ups in la pinta for talking back to the teacher.

La pinta is where you go when you’re too cool for the classroom.

I got stuck in la pinta for eating the substitute’s sandwich.

3

a place where you’re stuck until you promise to behave like a good little student

They wouldn’t let me out of la pinta until I apologized to the librarian.

I was in la pinta for screaming during math class.

La pinta is the worst thing that ever happened to me.

4

a jail for kids who think they’re the boss of the school

They put me in la pinta because I told the principal he had bad breath.

I got locked in la pinta for stealing the football coach’s coffee.

La pinta is where you go when you’re too dumb to know you’re in trouble.

5

a place you go when you’ve messed up so bad you’re not even allowed to eat lunch

They made me go to la pinta for fighting in the hallway.

I got locked in la pinta because I threw my math test at the teacher.

La pinta is like lunchtime jail.

6

a jail for kids who think they’re too good for the real world

I was sent to la pinta because I called the teacher a donkey.

La pinta is where you go when you think you’re a superhero.

They locked me in la pinta for talking during the science test.