locked

English

Etymology

• (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒkt

Verb

locked

1. simple past and past participle of lock

Adjective

locked (not comparable)

1. Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.

   A locked door barred the way.

2. (computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

   You can't delete a locked computer file.

3. (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.'

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

   Antonym: unlocked

5. Styled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.

   Synonyms: loc'd, dreadlocked

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• geolocked
• landlocked
• locked and loaded
• locked up
• long-locked
• multilocked
• nonlocked
• region-locked
• sealocked
• wood-locked
• ziplocked

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) (zaključen) Catalan: tancat (ca), tancat amb clau Czech: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: ŝlosita Finnish: lukittu (fi) French: fermé à clé, fermé à clef, verrouillé (fr) 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: zárt (hu), bezárt (hu), lezárt (hu) Italian: chiuso a chiave 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 Northern Altai: пектӱ (pektü) Persian: قفل (fa) (qofl) Polish: zamknięty (pl), zakluczony (regional, colloquial) Portuguese: trancado (pt) Romanian: încuiat (ro) Russian: за́пертый (ru) (zápertyj), закры́тый (ru) (zakrýtyj) Scots: lockt, lockit Scottish Gaelic: glaiste Slovak: zamknutý Southern Altai: бектӱ (bektü), јабылу (ǰabïlu) Spanish: cerrado con llave / seguro / llavín Swedish: låst (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kilitli (tr), kitli (tr) Vietnamese: khoá (vi)

computing: protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource

Hungarian: zárolt (hu)

mobile telephony: bound to a carrier

Hungarian: szolgáltatóhoz/hálózathoz kötött Russian: зало́ченый (zalóčenyj) (neologism, slang)

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