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Definition of Lockup
1. Noun. Jail in a local police station.
2. Noun. The act of locking something up to protect it.
Definition of Lockup
1. n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Definition of Lockup
1. Noun. (slang) A jail, prison. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lockup
1. a jail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockup
Literary usage of Lockup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"The lockup.—The lockup ia intended for temporary detention of persons accused of
minor offenses or crime. It is used also for shelter of vagrants and other ..."
2. Behind Bars in Brazil by Joanne Mariner, James Cavallaro (1998)
"—Joao Batista Araujo, commander of Sao Paulo's third police precinct, warning
Human Rights Watch researchers about conditions in the precinct lockup. ..."
3. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1914)
"Close any city jail or police station, town or village jail or lockup which is
unsanitary or inadequate to provide for the separation and classification of ..."
4. Law Enforcement Management & Administrative Statistics, 1993: Data for by Brian A. Reaves (1995)
"Selected law enforcement and investigative functions, type of 911 system, and
lockup facilities of local law enforcement agencies, 1993 Agencies with ..."
5. Guiteau Trial: Closing Speech to the Jury of John K. Porter, of New York, in by John Kilham Porter (1882)
"I would have gotten into the lockup. MR. PORTER. He may have committed a personal
fraud, but I know nothing of that. Mr. Scoville says he was so frightened, ..."
6. The Town Meeting: A Manual of Massachusetts Law by Austin De Wolf (1890)
"Keeper of lockup. — The selectmen in towns required to maintain a lockup shall
annually appoint a keeper, who shall have the custody and care of the same ..."
7. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"... XI THE PLANET lockup While I am in favour of having Colonel Roosevelt's gift
for hunting lions (for museums ..."
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