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Lockup

Lockup Meaning & Definition
Lockup Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lockup?

[n] the act of locking something up to protect it
[n] jail in a local police station

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lockup: locking

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lockup: bastille | black hole | borstal | borstal institution | bridewell | brig | caging | calaboose | can | cell | check | clink | concentration camp | condemned cell | confinement | constraint | cooler | coop | death cell | death house | death row | detention camp | federal prison | forced-labor camp | gaol | guardhouse | hoosegow | house of correction | house of detention | impoundment | industrial school | internment camp | jail | jailhouse | jug | keep | labor camp | maximum-security prison | minimum-security prison | oubliette | pen | penal colony | penal institution | penal settlement | penitentiary | penning | pokey | POW camp | prison | prison camp | prisonhouse | reform school | reformatory | restraint | restriction | sponging house | state prison | stockade | the hole | tollbooth | training school

See Also | clink | gaol | jail | jailhouse | protection | slammer

Lockup In Webster's Dictionary

\Lock"up`\, n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

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