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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.






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"Lockup" Quotes from Famous Books



... banished Beauty from the earth. The Lord knows what they meant by that; I don't. Old friends fought like wildcats, shrieking 'Puritan' at each other. Luckily it only got to one table—but there are ten raving lunatics in the lockup tonight. ...
— A Parody Outline of History • Donald Ogden Stewart

... me over from Oxford, and we carried off the sergeant from the authorities, and defeated the yeomanry in that tremendous thunder-storm, I thought we were a couple of idiots, and deserved a week each in the lockup for our pains. That business turned out well. This time we have started with flying colours and bells ringing, ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... occasion on this our first stroll in the streets to say that we cannot be trusted out of his sight. If we were to try to punish these insolent varlets we should have them on us like a swarm of bees, and should doubtless get worsted in the encounter, and might even find ourselves hauled off to the lockup, and that would be a nice tale for Master Lirriper ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty

... difference; his status as an old offender is readily established, and the rest follows almost automatically. "You did the job all right; but, if you didn't, you're a vagrant, without visible means of support, and they'll put you in the lockup for six months or a year. And let me tell you, our lockup is no joke! Likely you'll get on the chain gang, and then, God help you! If they don't take a fancy to you, they're liable to croak you any time. Now, I'd like to see you get out ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne

... inasmuch as, if there is no heir of Cosmo Mornington's in existence, I come into a hundred million francs. Exactly. There is therefore nothing for me to do, Monsieur le Prefet, but to go with you to the lockup or else—" ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... themselves to the use of Shaksperian phrases in conversation; and on one occasion celebrated the dramatist's birthday so uproariously that they were pounced upon by the police and spent the night in the lockup. In Goethe's circle at Strassburg, which numbered, among others, Lenz, Klinger, and H. L. Wagner, this Shakspere mania was de rigueur. Lenz, particularly, who translated "Love's Labour's Lost," excelled in whimsical imitations ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... 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 ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... who had looked in at the house to dose a small Seymourite who had indulged too heartily in the pleasures of the table, had other views, and before lockup Drummond was hurried ...
— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse

... like to disturb the vicar at this time of night," he said. "I will take you to the village lockup and go up to him ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... late you are out, or what you did," said Frye, still eyeing Page, "so long as you were with young Nason and kept out of the lockup. His father pays me a salary to look after his law business, and his son is the pride of his heart. I trust you understand my meaning. If you don't feel like work this morning," he continued suavely, "mount your ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn

... astounded burglars were led in triumph into Mr Stuart's study, where that sceptical individual received them in his dressing-gown and slippers, and had his unbelieving mind convinced. Then they were conveyed to the lockup, where we shall now leave them in peace—satisfied that they are safely ...
— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne

... Mr. Winslow, as they came up. "I'm bound around to the home of Mrs. Disney on a little errand; and, since you two are interested, I thought you might like to help me explain to the poor woman that I want to go on her boy's bail. It's a shame he has to stay in the lockup all this time, waiting for ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson

... peeple was hollering and swaring and holding their nose and being arested for being drunk by old Swane and old Mizzery and Sheriff Odlin and being draged into the lockup me and Beany and Pewt shet the winders of the office and we come down stairs and went home. when we got to my house we all went in. mother and Aunt Sarah and Keene and Cele was setting up. well when he went in and begun to talk mother and Aunt Sarah begun to maik awful faces and Keene and ...
— Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute

... lockup, the officer in charge remarked— "Well, Billy, you lucky fella. You only get three months. I been think ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... laid open with a sword cut. These fellows know they don't stand a chance against Englishmen's fists, and they very soon whip out their swords. In the second place, you would have to pass the night in a crowded lockup, where you would be half smothered before morning. And lastly, if you were lucky enough not to get a week's confinement in jail, you would have a smart ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... walking along one of the country lanes with his sweetheart when a body of tars fell upon him, and, after a sharp fight, carried him off to an old stable in the town that served as a temporary lockup. Very early the next morning Jean Nicol knocked gently ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton

... approvingly. "I was afraid for a moment that you were going to spring at that fellow. If you had you would have been in a lockup in five minutes, and as you could have given no good account of yourself, there you might have remained ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty



Words linked to "Lockup" :   locking, clink, jailhouse, pokey, jail, gaol, protection



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