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lockup definition

lock·up (-up′)

noun

  1. the act of locking up
  2. a being locked up, as in jail
  3. a jail

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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