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Lockup   /lˈɑkˌəp/   Listen
Lockup

noun
1.
Jail in a local police station.
2.
The act of locking something up to protect it.  Synonym: locking.






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"Lockup" Quotes from Famous Books



... said the princess malevolently. "He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot. Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'? (How silly!) 'And honor and glory to whoever captures him,' he says. This is what his cajolery has brought us to! Barbara Ivanovna told me the mob near killed her because she said ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... utterly innocent makes small 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 of this easy, ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne



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



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