lockup
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- noun
- /ˈlɑːkʌp/
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- The police took him to the lockup until his hearing the next morning.
- a police lockup
- jails and lockups
- a county lockup
They're in there paying protection or they're in lockup.
- They're in there paying protection or they're in lockup.
Examples
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I just got out of three years of lockup.
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Margo Wallace has been arrested and is being led into the women's lockup.
Fiction book (1995) -
"What sort of place is this lockup of yours?"
Fiction book (1993) -
Now, which one of you wanna spend the night in county lockup?
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Direct from the police lockup.
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You've been in lockup for 15 years.
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Son, you know where the Fayetteville lockup is?
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Wentworth had spent only one night in Central Lockup, but that was quite enough.
Fiction book (2002) -
After they'd been allowed to call their husbands, they were put into the police station lockup.
Fiction book (1991) -
More than 700 youths are in state lockups on any given day.
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Synonyms
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A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
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A building where police work, hold arrested people, and take crime reports
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1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
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A building where police keep people who are waiting for trial or serving a sentence
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4.1
A secure room in a police station where people wait briefly before going to court
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A prison or jail where people are kept after arrest
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A small locked room in jail for holding a person
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A large room in a jail or police station where officers keep several people for a short time
Antonyms
How Secure
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lockup comes from the phrase lock ('to close with a key') plus up ('fully'), used when someone is 'locked up' by the police. So, a lockup is a small place where people are kept for a short time after arrest.