lockup – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
lockup
adj.
may be locked up
n.
act of locking up; prison, jail; temporary detention center
Lock up
Lock up may refer to:
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lockup
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
(n.)
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
lockup
Synonyms and related words:
POW camp, 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, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, restraint, restriction, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
