locked

locked

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑkt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkt

Verb

locked

1. simple past tense and past participle of lock

Adjective

locked (not comparable)

1. Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.

   A locked door barred the way.

   You can't delete a locked computer file.

2. (Ireland) Very drunk.
   • 2021, Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

     'Drunk. Battered. Ar meisce. In a state of alcohol-induced intoxication.' […] Nadine and I once watched the news and had a shot of absinthe every time someone said unnatural. We were absolutely locked.'

3. (mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.

   Antonym: unlocked

Synonyms

• (secured by a lock):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (bound to a carrier): dedicated

Derived terms

• sealocked

Translations

that has been locked (with a key)

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: مُقْفَل‎ (muqfal) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: qıfıllı Bashkir: бикле (bikle), (Eastern Bashkir) бикте (bikte) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: заключен (bg) m (zaključen) Catalan: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: lukittu (fi) French: fermé à clé, fermé à clef Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: abgesperrt (de), abgeschlossen (de), zugeschlossen (de) Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: נעול‎ (naúl) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: chiuso a chiave m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Kyrgyz: бекилген (bekilgen), жабылган (ky) (jabılgan) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: raka Polish: zamknięty (pl), zakluczony (regional, colloquial) Portuguese: trancado Romanian: încuiat (ro) Russian: please add this translation if you can Scottish Gaelic: glaiste Slovak: zamknutý Southern Altai: бектӱ (bektü), јабылу (ǰabïlu) Spanish: cerrado con llave Swedish: låst (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

References

Further reading

• A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan, page 142
• Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang (2006)

Anagrams

• cloked