Associations to the word «Lockup»

Wiktionary

LOCKUP, noun. (slang) A jail cell.
LOCKUP, noun. (UK) (chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage

Dictionary definition

LOCKUP, noun. Jail in a local police station.
LOCKUP, noun. The act of locking something up to protect it.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats