What is Shu?
1.
Secure Housing Unit - a prison term for a lockdown high security housing unit. Pelican Bay in Northern California has a notorious SHU.
After shanking his cellie, Mike spent five years in the SHU.
2.
An arabic word that means What? Used in an informal way to friends or acquaintances.
Shu? I did not hear what you said.
3.
A minuscule bird located in the southern hills of Pakistan. Despite it's small nature, it's penis is the ninth largest in terms of body to penis ratio.
Person A. "My God, if only my penis were sizably proportionate to that of a miniscule Pakistani mountain bird.
Person B. lolshu?
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4.
To fuck hard or vigorously.
"I'm going to shu your ass like a I would a watermelon."
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5.
A synonym for the word "you". Often used to seem cooler than you really are.
"I love shu." or "Can shu pass the gravy?"
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the Secure Housing Unit (SHU for short), or isolation facility of a maximum security prison.
While technically, SHU can be used to describe any prison's isolation facility, it commonly refers to the unit of the
The term SHU (pronounced "
When compared to the freedoms and luxuries enjoyed by minimum to medium-security offenders (visitors, T.V. and telephone privileges, uncensored mail, etc.), or even to the generally restrictive standards of maximum security inmates housed in the general population, the SHU is considered oppressive:
All inmates are kept in solitary confinement (a.k.a.
Prisoners are on
The austere living conditions and isolation have created an environment of continual mental distress. Many inmates report feeling pychologically broken and a greatly diminshed (if not wholly extinguished) sense of identity; not surprising when the posessions and activities commonly used to define a life (clothes, food, friends, etc.) are forbidden.
Some even struggle to maintain a basic state of sanity. Many inmates sufffer from depression and/or mental illness, and the SHU has limited access to services and treatment. All of the units reserved to meet mental health needs are full, leaving untreated inmates on a prolonged waiting list.
You think you can do this to me?! You
motherfuckers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay... ...when I get finished with you!
Shoe program,
nigga ! Twenty-three hour lockdown!
-Denzel Washington, as Alonzo Harris, in "
Training Day "
A focal point in many films on crime/prison in California, the SHU was recently (and perhaps most famously) mentioned in the 2001 film Training Day.
Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, it portrays 'a day in the life' of a "
narc ": on L.A.'s mean streets, and chronicles the final 24 hours of a corrupt narcotics detective who's about to reap the full harvest of the evil sown during his career.
Both Washington and Hawke were nominated for top honors in their film categories (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively). Denzel Washington took home the 2001 Best Actor
Oscar for Training Day at the 74th Annual Academy Awards. He was the second African-American actor to receive the award; the first since Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, 1963).
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Scoville Heat Unit: the the amount of water needed to dilute the capsaicin beyond human taste capacity in equal parts water to the weight of the mass being tested.
that hot sauce is 3,000 SHU.
it required 1,000 grams of water to dilute 1 gram of that hot sauce, thus the hot sauce is 1,000 Scoville heat units.
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