English Online Dictionary. What means locked? What does locked mean?
English
Etymology
- (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒkt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɑkt/
- Rhymes: -ɒkt
Verb
locked
- simple past and past participle of lock
Adjective
locked (not comparable)
- Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
- (computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- (Ireland) Very drunk.
- (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
Translations
References
Further reading
- A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan, page 142
- Eric Partridge (2005) “locked”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN.
Anagrams
- cloked