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What (who) is lock up - definition
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Lock-ups; Lock-Up; Lock-up; Lock Up; Lockup; Lockups; Lock ups; Lock up (disambiguation); Lock Up (disambiguation); Lock Up (band); Lock Up (film)
lock up
1.
Clasp, fasten, lock, close fast.
2.
Confine, shut up, restrain.
lock up
1.
If you lock something up in a place or container, you put or hide it there and fasten the lock.
Give away any food you have on hand, or lock it up and give the key to the neighbours...
Control of materials could be maintained by locking up bombs.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
2.
To lock someone up means to put them in prison or a secure psychiatric hospital.
Mr Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
3.
When you lock up a building or car or lock up, you make sure that all the doors and windows are locked so that nobody can get in.
Don't forget to lock up...
Leave your car here and lock it up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P
lock-up
¦ noun
1. a jail, especially a temporary one.
2. Brit. non-residential premises that can be locked up, typically a garage.
Examples of use of lock up
1. Forget lock up your daughters, it will be lock up your bins and beware of midnight raids by fly–tippers.
2. "I can lock up as many people as I can safely and reasonably lock up and there is a maximum capacity," he said.
3. "Lock up your children," warned the Globe and Mail.
4. The states lock up the insurance industry," he said.
5. It‘s to lock up supply, but then also hopefully price."