may be locked up
act of locking up; prison, jail; temporary detention center
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Lockup Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
lockup
\lock"up`\ (?), n. a place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Noun
1. jail in a local police station
(hypernym) jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer
2. the act of locking something up to protect it
(synonym) locking
(hypernym) protection
(derivation) lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up
Lockup Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
The moment when a tire begins to skid during braking. A tire's maximum braking force occurs when it is on the verge of lockup. Ideally all four tires should approach lockup simultaneously to give a vehicle the best braking. Because this ideal is hard to create in the real world, one end tends to lock up before the other. Front-wheel lockup is inherently more stable than rear-wheel lockup. Anti-lock brakes provide the best type of braking because it rapidly releases pressure on the brakes to prevent lockup.
Lockup Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Lock up may refer to:
- Lock Up (American band), an American rock band, featuring guitarist Tom Morello during his pre-Rage Against the Machine career
- Lock Up (UK band), a UK grindcore band
- Lock Up (film), a 1989 movie featuring Sylvester Stallone
- Lock-Up (comics), a character from the Batman comics
- Lock-Up (TV series), a 1959 American legal drama series
- Lockup (TV series), a prison documentary series on MSNBC
- Village lock-up, a small prison used to detain people temporarily
- Lock-up provision, a corporate finance term
- Lock-up period, a term concerning initial public offerings of stock
- Lock-up, a prison cell in a police station used to hold prisoners until they are produced before a magistrate. Contrasted with a Lock-down
- The particular graphic arrangement of a logo and accompanying elements, such as a company name or a tagline.
- Lock Up, a BBC radio show hosted by Mike Davies featuring mostly punk associated acts
- Lock Up, a stage at the Reading & Leeds music festival named after the radio show
- In computing, a hang.
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