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Lockup definition

lŏkŭp
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(informal) A jail, especially one in which offenders are held while awaiting a court hearing.
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The act or an instance of locking.
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The state of being locked.
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The act of locking up.
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A being locked up, as in jail.
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A jail.
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A restriction made when giving shares in an initial public offering that limits when the buyer can sell the shares after the IPO begins trading.
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(slang) A jail, prison.

He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.

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(UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.

Joe keeps his other car in a lockup downtown.

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Noun

Singular:
lockup
Plural:
lockups

Lockup Sentence Examples

  • He's not going to get her committed without a few miles of red tape but just the threat of a lockup could drag her back to old Virginia.

  • I'm looking for storage space - about the size of a lockup garage.

  • Since putting on standby all the time when not in use have not had another lockup.

  • You have to understand; in lockup, there are some who spew bull shit all the time and others who won't open their mouths and some who keep swearing they got framed so you've got to take what you hear in there and sort through the garbage.

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