| Pronunciation: | | 'lâk`up
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- [n] the act of locking something up to protect it
- [n] jail in a local police station
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| | Synonyms: | | locking |
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| | See Also: | | clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, protection, slammer |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lock"up`\, n.
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up;
a watchhouse.
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| | Related Terms: | | bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, caging, calaboose, can, cell, check, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confinement, constraint, cooler, coop, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, impoundment, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, penning, pokey, POW camp, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, restraint, restriction, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school |
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