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— English words —

• lockup n. (Slang) A jail cell, or a period of incarceration.
• lockup n. (UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
• lockup n. (Mechanical engineering) A condition in which one or more of a vehicle’s wheels suddenly cease to rotate…
• lockup n. (Computing) A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
• lockup n. (Printing, historical) A device for locking type into position for printing.
• lockup n. (Marketing, by extension) A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
• lock-up n. Alternative form of lockup.
• lock␣up v. (Transitive) To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
• lock␣up v. (Transitive) To invest in something long term.
• lock␣up v. (Intransitive) To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely.
• lock␣up v. (Intransitive, computing) To cease responding; to freeze.
• lock␣up v. (Transitive, computing) To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze.
• lock␣up v. (Intransitive, mechanics) To stop moving; to seize.
• lock␣up v. To lose one’s forward momentum; to freeze.
• lock␣up v. (Intransitive, motor racing) To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one’s wheels to lock up (stop spinning).
• lock␣up v. (Intransitive, boating) To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction.

— English words, defined in French —

• lock-up n. Cachot, prison.
• lock␣up v. Serrer.
• lock␣up v. Enfermer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• lockup s. Calabozo, prisión.
• lock␣up v. Encarcelar, encerrar.
• lock␣up v. Sujetar, asegurar con un seguro.
• lock␣up v. Cerrar con seguro o llave.
• lock␣up v. Fijar firmemente.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• lock␣up v. Rinchiudere, carcerare.
• lock␣up v. Chiudere a chiave.

— In Dutch —

• lock-up n. (Effectenhandel) regeling waarbij er na de uitgifte van nieuwe…
• lock-up n. (Techniek) (verkeer) mechanisme bij een automatische versnellingsbak…

99 English words from 16 English definitions

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5 English words from 12 foreign definitions

Calabozo con een prison van

25 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

a␣chiave asegurar automatische bij Cachot Cerrar chiave Effectenhandel Encarcelar encerrar Enfermer Fijar firmemente llave mechanisme prisión regeling seguro Serrer Sujetar Techniek uitgifte verkeer versnellingsbak waarbij

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

lockups lock-ups lockup␣house lockup␣houses

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

block␣upconverter

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

block␣up clock␣up

10 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

loc LoC LOC 'loc loc. lock Lock -lock ock -ock

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

col Col COL col- col. Col. -col-

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

uplock

12 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

block␣up clock␣up Duplock locks␣up lockups lock-ups potluck pot-luck pot␣luck putlock upclock uplocks

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

pluck UK␣plc

11 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

cockup cock-up cock␣up lick␣up lookup look-up look␣up mockup mock-up mock␣up rock␣up

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

locks␣up

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