Synonyms for lock-up

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lok

Phonetic Transcription : lɒk

Définition of lock-up

Origin : "detention cell for offenders," 1838, perhaps short for earlier lock-up house; from lock (v.) + up. Meaning "action of locking up" is from 1845. The verbal phrase lock up is recorded from early 15c.

As in coop : noun pen

Example sentences :

They were not fonder of the lock-up than are most boys who deserve that punishment.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

Napoleon, the prisoner in the school "lock-up," raged for a while like a caged lion.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

You'll find more of the same sort in the lock-up at May's Landing.
Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

You'll just fork over five dollars to me this very night or off you go to the lock-up.
Extract from : « The Masked Bridal » by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

And what, pray, is the meaning of this—strangers in the jail after lock-up time?
Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Was this another and a rougher way of taking her to the lock-up?
Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade

Nick could not have seen Buckner after the money was stolen, unless he visited him in the lock-up.
Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic

Hurry and put everything back or I'll see that you land in the lock-up.
Extract from : « Afloat on the Flood » by Lawrence J. Leslie

Warde welcomed the House at lock-up, and introduced the boys to his wife and daughter.
Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell

There was a whistle; the police arrived, and the women were taken to the lock-up.
Extract from : « Brazilian Tales » by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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