lock up

Speech parts

1. lock up - Noun

2. lock up - Verb

Meaning

place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

secure by locking

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

lock-up

Synonyms

lock shut up lock in put away lock away shut away bastille close keep hold corral lockup coop secure arrest
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Antonyms

release babble broadcast combat brief tell
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Hypernyms

secure fix confine fasten

Related terms

lockaway

Examples

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. Hunter S. Thompson

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service. Leon Trotsky

He is miserable indeed that must lock up his miseries. Italian Proverb

You may lock up the cock, but the sun will still rise. Hindi Proverb

You cannot lock up science in one head. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted lock through lock time lock up in lock valve lock washer