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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
locked
- simple past and past participle of lock
Adjective
locked (not comparable)
- Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
A locked door barred the way.
- (computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
You can't delete a locked computer file.
- (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.'
- (mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.
- Antonym: unlocked
Synonyms
Derived terms
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: tancat (ca) m, tancada (ca) f, tancat amb clau m, tancada amb clau f
- 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
- Scots: lockt, lockit
- 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
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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, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN.
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