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lock·up

(lŏk′ŭp′)

1. Informal A jail, especially one in which offenders are held while awaiting a court hearing.

a. The act or an instance of locking.

b. The state of being locked.

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lock•up

(ˈlɒkˌʌp)

n.

1. a jail, esp. a local one for temporary detention.

2. the act of locking up or the state of being locked up.

[1760–70]

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Noun	1.	lockup - jail in a local police station gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer, clink - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
	2.	lockup - the act of locking something up to protect it locking protection - the activity of protecting someone or something; "the witnesses demanded police protection"

lockup

noun

Informal. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention:

brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison.

Informal: pen.

Slang: big house, can, clink, cooler, coop, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey, slammer, stir.

Chiefly Regional: calaboose.

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camera di sicurezza prigione

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Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'?

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(This was the money Sergey Ivanovitch had paid.) Then he remembered how he had spent a night in the lockup for disorderly conduct in the street.

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The fight concerned a trunk and ended by the doctor's being escorted to the vil- lage lockup. When he was released he rented a room above a shoe-repairing shop at the lower end of Main Street and put out the sign that announced himself as a doctor.

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PESHAWAR -- An inmate died in the lockup of the University Town police station here the other day.

Man dies in Peshawar police's custody

Earlier this month, Lyft announced it was moving its IPO lockup expiration date up one month to Aug.

Lyft Short Sellers Are Jumping Ship Following Lockup Expiration

LAHORE -- A robbery suspect was found dead in the lockup of Lower Mall police station on early Saturday.

Suspect found dead in police lockup

Just a month ago, 30-year-old Zeeshan, arrested over charges of sexual assault, was found hanged in the police lockup of Akbari Gate.

Lockup cameras fail to prevent another custodial death in Lahore

Similarly, Hashmatullah from Sub-Jail Dir Upper transferred and posted in Central Jail Mardan, Ameenul Haq from Mardan to Kohat, Tahir Shahbaz Khan Wazir from Kohat to Buner, Najam Hussain Abbassi from Karak to Judicial Lockup Nowshera and Falak Sher from Judicial Lockup Nowshera to Central Jail Karak, the notification concluded.

Seven Deputy Superintendent Jail reshuffled

GWADAR:Ten under trial prisoners, involved in murder,attempt to murder, dacoities and theft have escaped from Gwadar policestation lockup after injuring a police personnel in exchange of fire, on Sunday.

10 Prisoner escaped from Gwadar Jail

Senior police official ASP Umar Abbas said raids had been carrying out to arrest the fugitives and action would also be taken against the responsible whose negligence helped them escape from the lockup, Express News reported.

Policemen booked for chai wala's attempted rape dodge arrest in Rawalpindi

Okoi Ofem committed suicide in a jail cell at a City of Chicago lockup. His mother, Vertulie Lapre, sued the City under 42 U.S.C.

Sufficiency of Evidence

While reviewing facilities being provided to under-trial prisoners in NAB's lockup, he said that the lockup inmates are being provided faculties in the light of Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.