Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Lockup   Listen
noun
Lockup  n.  
1.
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail.
2.
The act or state of temporary imprisonment in a lockup (1).
3.
A malfunction in a machine having moving parts, such that the moving part cannot move; a seizure.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Lockup" Quotes from Famous Books



... been in Winesburg about five years. He came from Chicago and when he arrived was drunk and got into a fight with Albert Longworth, the baggageman. The fight concerned a trunk and ended by the doctor's being escorted to the village lockup. When he was released he rented a room above a shoe-repairing shop at the lower end of Main Street and put out the sign that announced himself as a doctor. Although he had but few patients and these of the poorer sort who were unable to pay, he seemed to have plenty of money for his needs. ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... de Libris priggatis,' commonly called his Essay on Stolen Books, asserts that there never yet was a book printed but was more or less stolen; and society, he argues, in no shape, in none of its classes—neither in the prison, lockup, blackhole, or penitentiary—presents us with such a set of impenitents and irreclaimable thieves as those who write books. Theft is their profession, and gets them the dishonest bread by which they live. ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... to the lockup, the officer in charge remarked— "Well, Billy, you lucky fella. You only get three months. I been think you in ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield


Words linked to "Lockup" :   lock up, clink, pokey, protection, gaol, slammer, jailhouse, jail, poky, locking


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com