lock-upn.
/ˈlɒkʌp/, U.S. /ˈlɑkˌəp/ 1. A place where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, esp. a cell or cells at a court or police station.Recorded earliest in lock-up house n. at Compounds 2.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up
roundhousec1437
cagea1500
stress house1505
lock-up1746
goose-house1841
booby hatch1859
prison camp1865
hold-over1888
booby-hutch1889
charge-house1900
1746 Proc. Old Bailey 5 Dec. 7/2 I keep a Lock up house for Prisoners.
1817 Courier 17 June 9 Sept. He took me up, and got me taken to the New Bailey on Saturday forenoon. I was put into the lock-ups.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 24 There is not a man..could be of sae muckle use..in the..lock-up line of business.
1865 J. Cameron Malayan India ix. 267 In ten days..600 prisoners were accumulated in the lock-ups of the central police station.
1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence i. 14 Sam..was at present residing within the central lock-up in..police headquarters, ready to appear before the court.
2009 New Yorker 14 Dec. 57/2 None of the convictions for statutory rape..resulted in a sentence to state prison, although many defendants spent time in county jails or lockups.
2. † b. A person responsible for locking up a building for the night. Obsolete. rare.
a. The action of locking up a prison, school, or other institution, esp. at night; the period during which the building is locked up. Also: the time when locking up is carried out.Earliest in attributive use.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > time of doing particular things at night
lock-up1757
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > by locking
obseration1658
lock-up1757
locking1892
1757 R. Nugent Oppressed Captive 92 Bedal the turnkey came at the lock-up hour to secure them.
1789 J. Byng Diary 30 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 116 Here indeed is a want of lock-up, and walls, as the boys board at lodging-houses, as at Eaton.
1845 T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Exped. xvii. 300 To elude the vigilance of the officer at lock-up time.
1861 H. C. Adams Schoolboy Honour xiii. 184 Was Warburton in your room during lock-up on Thursday?
1890 M. Williams Leaves of Life I. 16 One of the amusements of the Lower boys was, after ‘lock up’, to be perpetually ringing old Plumptree's bell and running away.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iv. 104 Rules, roll-calls, bounds, lock-ups.
1968 Eton College Chron. 22 Mar. 6221 Sat. Mar. 23 Lock-up, 7.15 p.m.
1979 D. Faul & R. Murray H Blocks 11/1 Breakfast is usually over at 9.30 a.m. and morning lock-up begins.
2001 J. Archer Diary 27 July in Prison Diary (2002) 108 Several other prisoners..also wish to speak to the Deputy Governor before lock-up.
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1892 H. Le Caron Twenty-five Years in Secret Service xxxiii. 165 Breslin, who was chief hospital warden, and Byrne, who was night-watchman and ‘lock-up’.
3. A building, room, etc., that can be securely locked, esp. one used for storage. Frequently with reference to non-residential or commercial premises; spec. = lock-up garage n. at Compounds 2.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > place of safe storage
chesta700
cofferc1300
aumbry1356
salvatorya1676
safe deposit1706
lock-up1843
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > building for storage of motor vehicles
garage1902
lock-up garage1902
lock-up1905
carport1939
tandem garage1968
1843 E. Parry Cambrian Mirror 68 On the basement story is the lock-ups, for the sale of butchers meat.
1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 86 Here, too, is a lock-up for the tools employed.
1905 Automotor Jrnl. 18 Feb. 237/2 Private lockups are provided and accumulators can be charged.
1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1036 Southgate Private Hotel..Lock-up for Bicycles.
1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance ix. 103 ‘Was the car standing out while you were in Cornwall?’ ‘No. They gave me a lock-up.’
1999 J. R. Wyman Loss Prevention & Small Business viii. 134 High-value small items should be..stored in secured lock-ups.
2006 Independent 27 Sept. (Property section) 7/5 ‘We could find out who owned those garages,’ she says, pointing to some lock-ups over the road.
4.
a. Printing. The action of securing imposed type in a forme in readiness for printing or plate-making. Cf. lock v.1 12a.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > locking-in plate or forme
lock-up1859
1859 Proc. Wisconsin Editorial Assoc., 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Sess. 70 I feel most comfortable and at home among the ‘boys’, when the types are clicking—the ‘lock up’ progressing—and the presses are clanging.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 213/1 The whole form should thus be tightened uniformly before the final lock-up is made.
1925 H. Crane Let. 4 May (1965) 203 Lockup & Presswork..$40.00.
1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry 119/2 Lockup for duplicate platemaking has its own requirements.
2009 F. R. Sinclair Without Benefit of Clergy (ed. 2) iv. 78 At the Cape Times, it was often part of my job to go down at 1 a.m. to oversee the ‘lock-up’ of the last galleys on the late pages before the presses ran.
b. The state of a wheel that is prevented from rotating, or of a mechanism that is rendered immovable. Cf. lock v.1 10b.
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1963 Pop. Mech. June 98/2 Drivers know enough brake pressure will lock the wheels... We kept good control of the car. Brake line pressure stayed just below the lock-up point.
1992 Atlantic Feb. 67/5 (advt.) Anti-lock braking..helps prevent wheel lock-up to help you maintain steering control on slippery surfaces.
1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 88/4 Slip is also less, rendering redundant the old version's over-1700rpm mechanical lock-up.
2011 T. Worobiec Landscape Photogr. Bible i. 25 Although using a self-timer or cable release can prevent camera shake, selecting the camera's mirror lock-up facility in order to reduce vibration can also help.
c. Computing. The state of a computer, program, etc., which has stopped at some stage of performing a certain operation and will not respond to further input; a stoppage of this kind. Cf. hang-up n. at hang- comb. form Additions.
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1968 IEEE Trans. Syst. Sci. & Cybernetics 4 400/2 It is necessary not only to design in the features which prevent software lock ups, but it also necessary that the design deliberately ensure that the parallelism is obtained.
1985 IEEE Micro 5 32/2 It opens up many possibilities for unforeseen system ‘lock-ups,’ i.e., conflicts that cannot be resolved by the scheduler.
1999 Network World 1 Mar. 54 (advt.) In the event of a lock-up, Watchdog 2000 automatically ‘reboots’ the system it is monitoring!
2014 M. Vail Synthesizer i. 112 There's always a potential for crashes, lock-ups, and other types of failure.
5. Finance. The action of locking up capital in assets that cannot be realized or sold on in the short term; the state of capital being unrealizable; a period during which assets cannot be realized. Also: an amount of capital invested in this way. Cf. to lock up 3 at lock v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > money invested
stocka1763
investment1785
lock-up1866
smart money1893
ploughback1939
switch dollar1964
1837 J. W. Gilbart Hist. Banking Amer. iv. 90 To compel..a joint stock bank to deposit that which could not be withdrawn in case of emergency, would be to cause a lock-up of capital.]
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking xi. 246 The banker continues to throw good money after bad, the termination of which..is an indefinite lock-up.
1889 Spectator 9 Mar. This means a ‘lock-up’ of nine millions sterling.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 6/3 To distinguish between bills and mortgages—between liquid assets and lock-ups.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 9/3 Those who buy such shares as a ‘lock-up’ may possibly be able to sell them at much higher prices.
1908 Daily Report 26 Aug. 5/4 As a promising speculative lock-up holding, the shares are worth buying at the present prices.
1929 Observer 17 Nov. 4/3 The shares may be regarded as a good lock-up investment.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Sept. The balance of the shares are subject to the lockup agreement until July 15, 1995.
2004 BusinessWeek 29 Nov. 48/2 On Nov. 16, the lockups expired on 39 million shares held by Google employees and investors.
6. The confinement of journalists, employees, etc., to a room without contact with other people or access to communication devices, in order for them to read or work on confidential information prior to an official announcement. Also attributive.
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1968 Proc. 3rd Ann. Faculty Assembly State Univ. N.Y. 1967 25 When the faculty proposes new programs in advance of the actual budget lock-up, they are most likely to get them in because..administrators accept good proposals.
1977 Sunday Sun (Toronto) 3 Apr. 11/2 I read the printed ‘address’ in the so-called budget lock-up for journalists before the speech. This lock-up was a real chin-wagger.
1993 Business Econ. July 20/2 Completion of the news release..is limited to a few..career civil servants working under lock-up conditions. These conditions include physical separation..in a lock-up suite.
2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 May 30/2 Reporters confined to a room at the Labor Department in Washington get advance copies of the jobs report at 8 a.m.... He would like to sit in the ‘lock up’ some day, but he never has.
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a. attributive, with the sense ‘that can be securely locked’ (see sense 3), as lock-up cubicle, lock-up shed, lock-up shop, etc.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1795 F. Lathom All in Bustle v. 120 Mr. Tiptoe; lodged him quite safe in my lock-up shop.
1798 Proc. Old Bailey 10 Jan. 120/1 The two coaches were in a lock-up coach-house.
1812 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 54 They are under a lock-up shed.
1897 Daily News 1 Dec. 3/5 The building is a lock-up shop which was closed at about 6.30 last evening.
1907 Times 7 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) Up-to-date garage with lock-up cubicles.
1990 P. M. Hembry Eng. Spa xii. 198 Crescent Mews..in Cheltenham, with private stables and a lock-up coach-house.
1995 J. Banville Athena 163 A narrow lane with dustbins and a jumble of lock-up sheds.
2001 Estates Gaz. 30 June 174/4 (advt.) Parade of ten small lock-up shops.
2009 National Rev. (Nexis) 7 Sept. A self-storage firm—one of those places that will rent you a lock-up cubicle to store your stuff.
b. attributive. spec. Designating a book, diary, etc., that can be locked.
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1858 Money Bag No. 3. 146 I hardly know how I have ventured to put myself so indiscreet a question, even in the confidential pages of my lock-up book!
1870 G. H. Lewes Diary 22 Nov. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 123 Bought Polly a Lock-up book for her Autobiog[raphy].
1920 W. Caine Strangeness Noel Carton vi. 222 The place for that story is this good little lock-up book and nowhere else.
1975 J. Dunning Holland Suggestions i. 6 At the end of her bureau lay her lock-up diary.
2005 C. Ross Love Bk. 218 She wrote everything she could not say in her lock-up diary.
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lock-up garage n. a garage located in a separate area from residential buildings, esp. one that may be rented.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > building for storage of motor vehicles
garage1902
lock-up garage1902
lock-up1905
carport1939
tandem garage1968
1902 Car 19 Nov. 418/1 The only drawback to this hotel is that there is no lock-up garage..but just a sort of shed to put the motors in.
1935 Archit. Rev. 78 168/1 A general garage and a number of private lock-up garages.
1963 Times 21 Feb. 8/7 The rent of all council houses and lock-up garages provided by Maidstone Town Council is to be increased by 12½ per cent.
2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales v. 174 There's off-road parking and a lock-up garage for bikes.
lock-up house n. (a) a place where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest; spec. one in which debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison (now historical); †(b) colloquial a lodging house in which men are confined and coerced into enlisting into the army or navy (obsolete).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > house used for recruiting
lock-up house1746
crimping house1795
crimp house1797
1746Lock up house [see sense 1].
1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 Chron. 60/2 The office keeper..found it to be a lock-up house for recruits.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Lock up house, a spunging house..; also houses kept by agents, or crimps, who inlist, or rather trepan men to serve the East India, or African Company as soldiers.
1804 European Mag. 45 332 (note) Coleman-street..had in it..a Magistrate..and a lock-up house.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 158 He was in hiding, or worse than in hiding, in the lock-up house.
1912 Financial Times 6 Jan. 10/4 The last-mentioned sum comprises the following items:..lunatic asylums, £280,000; police-stations and lock-up houses, £52,000; [etc.].
2003 M. C. Finn Char. of Credit iii. 117 Superior-court insolvents who failed to obtain bail or to effect a settlement with their creditors in a lock-up house proceeded to the debtors' prison itself.
lock-up place n. (a) a prison or other detention centre; (b) a storage place that can be securely locked.
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1770 Proc. Old Bailey 25 Apr. 193/1 Bowers and Newman broke out; we had Kellyhorn in another lock-up place.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. i. 436 He..opened all his lock-up places.
1852 J. C. North Jrnl. 1 Sept. in M. O'Brien Evening when Alone (1993) III. ii. 206 We saw the state prison, a large building of stone surrounded by a high wall, few would ever make their escape from such a ‘lock up place’.
2000 P. Hemphill Ballad Little River xvii. 207 It's not a hard lockup place, like a real prison, but more of a drug rehabilitation center.
2009 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 June (Travel section) 13 Always keep your passport and money on you. Unless you have a really safe lock-up place.
lock-up prisoner n. a prisoner in a lock-up (sense 1).
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1846 D. Corcoran Pickings 33 To the right of the column we perceived a prisoner whom we at once knew was above and beyond the ordinary class of lock-up prisoners.
1996 L. Gruenfeld Halls of Justice vii. 122 The bailiff..jots it down on a list with all the lock-up prisoners' names on it.
lock-up room n. (a) a room where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, esp. one at a courtroom or police station; (b) a storage room that can be securely locked.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell
houseOE
cabinc1522
hole1535
lodging1612
hold1717
cell1728
lock-up room1775
glory-hole1825
box1834
drum1846
sweat-box1870
booby-hutch1889
Peter1890
booby1899
boob1908
flowery dell1925
slot1947
1775 London Evening Post 30 Mar. Mr. Ellward went into the lock-up room to see if they were all safe.
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) I. 171 The Magistrate..was surprised to see such a figure brought out from amongst the filthy wretches..of the lock-up room.
1840 J. L. Wendell Rep. Supreme Court N.-Y. 21 356 They were in the habit of locking up baggage in the lock up room whenever any body requested it.
1914 Munsey's Mag. Apr. 511/1 Obed..peered through the grated window of the lock-up room.
2003 D. Cleary et al. Brazil: Rough Guide (ed. 5) 58/1 Most bus stations will have a guarda volume where you can leave bags... In smaller places it will usually be a lock-up room operated by a bus company.
2011 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 23 May While she was being taken to the lock-up room, Rajathi Ammal broke down and was in tears.
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