locker room

noun

a room containing lockers, as in a gymnasium, factory, or school, for changing clothes and for the storage and safekeeping of personal belongings.

locker-room

[ lok-er-room, -room ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

of, characteristic of, or suitable to conversation in a locker room; earthy or sexually explicit:
locker-room humor.

First recorded in 1890–95

First recorded in 1945–50

Kids that were trapped in that locker room are scared to say anything, let alone leave.

The featured photo for the list, first of all, is as white as a loaf of Wonder Bread and as male as a football locker room.

I was just in the locker room with LeBron… At the end of the day, you know we have leaders.

To hear Ruckus soliloquize is to be a fly on the wall in a country club locker room.

We got a whole bunch of gangstas in the locker room, not thugs but tough guys on the court.

The leader will do well to see that everything is right and clean in conversation and practice in the locker-room and showers.

It is probably in the locker room,” replied my chum, “shall I ask Smiley to let us go and see?

Beyond, along the far wall, were the washroom and locker room and lunch room of the workmen.

In the locker-room at the gymnasium Mr. Robey and the assistant coaches dealt praise and censure and instruction.

Champ and Jimmy rushed into the locker room just as the big Blue team was about to trot out for the second half.

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