Doing time is slang for spending time in a jail or

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. It may also refer to: * ''Doing Time'' (2002 film), also ''Keimusho no Naka'', a 2002 Japanese live-action film * '' Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House'', a 1991 documentary film * ''We're All Doing Time'', a book by

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* ''Doing Time'', the US title of 1979 British film ''Porridge'' * "Doing Time", an episode from the third season of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * "Doing Time", a song by

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from the 1982 album ''

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'' * "Doing Time", a song by

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from the 2013 album '' Hail to the King'' * "Doing Time", a song by

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from the 1996 album '' Life in General''

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