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lock up

verb

Alsolock inlock away tr to imprison or confine
to lock or secure the doors, windows, etc, of (a building)
tr to keep or store securely
secrets locked up in history
tr to invest (funds) so that conversion into cash is difficult
printing to secure (type, etc) in a chase or in the bed of the printing machine by tightening the quoins

the action or time of locking up
a jail or block of cells
a small shop with no attached quarters for the owner or shopkeeper
a garage or storage place separate from the main premises
stock exchange an investment that is intended to be held for a relatively long period
printing the pages of type held in a chase by the positioning of quoins

While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.

Expect more of the unapologetic same the next time: NBC has paid a lot of money to lock up the Olympics through 2020.

The only technical issue I really had (aside from a game lock-up at the end of a particular chapter) was with some pop-in.

His son, he told them, would spend many hours in lock up by himself, and it severely affected him.

Yet the two-day plunge seems too big to blame on just the lock-up expiration.

The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.

One of the punishments Mr Yates had invented was to lock up a culprit in a dark room for several hours together, without food.

Most Wrykinians brewed in the winter and Easter terms, when the days were short and lock-up early.

As he spoke he began carefully to lock up some of the jewels in their little boxes, as if he meant to go away.

Lock-up was still at six, so at a quarter to that hour they slipped down into the vault, and took up their position.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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