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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• sealocked

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) m (zaključen)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: chiuso a chiave m
• 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
• Polish: zamknięty (pl), zakluczony (regional, colloquial)
• Portuguese: trancado (pt)
• Romanian: încuiat (ro)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: glaiste
• Slovak: zamknutý
• Southern Altai: бектӱ (bektü), јабылу (ǰabïlu)
• Spanish: cerrado con llave
• Swedish: låst (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kilitli (tr), kitli (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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