Definition of lockup
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:jail;
especially
:a local jail where persons are detained prior to court hearing
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Examples of lockup in a Sentence
the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups
Recent Examples of lockup from the Web
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Connie spends the rest of the film trying to raise his bail (in clean bills) or break him out of hospital lockup.
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SNAP: The company’s share lockup for early investors expired yesterday and its stock ended the day down 1%.
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A female prisoner named Ezmeralda Rivera was repeatedly assaulted by a guard in a Texas lockup.
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Dinardo, in the county jail, wore a red jumpsuit; Kratz, in a blue jumpsuit, spoke from a lockup at the county’s Justice Center.
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A state grand jury voted to indict him, however, and he was taken from a federal lockup into state court on Thursday in prison clothes, leg shackles and handcuffs.
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Lockups across the country experience a revolving-door syndrome as inmates with opioid or heroin addiction are released, go back to using and get arrested again.
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Jiles was booked into central lockup at about 10:30 a.m., according to Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office records.
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The doors in lockup, normally electronically secured, were switched to a manual locking mechanism, according to Foley.
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First Known Use of lockup
1746
lockup Synonyms
Synonyms
bastille, big house [slang], bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink [slang], cooler, coop, guardroom, hock, hold, hoosegow, jailhouse, joint [slang], jug, jail, nick [British slang], pen, penitentiary, pokey [slang], prison, quod [British slang], slam, slammer, stir [slang], stockade, tolbooth [Scottish]Related Words
bull pen, cage, cell, hole, tank; block, ward; glasshouse [British], guardhouse, hulk (s); concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work camp; dungeon, keep, oubliette; reformatory, reform school, training schoolNear Antonyms
outsideLOCKUP Defined for English Language Learners
lockup
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Definition of lockup for English Language Learners
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: a place where prisoners are kept
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: a garage (sense 1) that is rented out
LOCKUP Defined for Kids
Law Dictionary
lockup
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legal Definition of lockup
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:a cell or group of cells (as in a courthouse) or jail where persons are held prior to a court hearing — compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, penitentiary, prison
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:the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party
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