'Lockup' definitions:
Definition of 'lockup'
(from WordNet)
noun
Jail in a local police station
noun
The act of locking something up to protect it [syn: locking, lockup]
Definition of 'Lockup'
From: GCIDE
- Lockup \Lock"up`\,
- 1. n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act or state of temporary imprisonment in a lockup[1]. [PJC]
- 3. A malfunction in a machine having moving parts, such that the moving part cannot move; a seizure. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'lockup'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- caging,
- calaboose,
- can,
- cell,
- check,
- clink,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- cooler,
- coop,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- hoosegow,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- impoundment,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- jug,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- penning,
- pokey,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school