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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of urban dance originating in California in the early 1970s, involving quick arm movements punctuated by briefly held poses, usually performed to funk music.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A split pin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
lock . - noun The act by which something is
locked . - noun computing Using a
lock or amutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of locking something up to protect it
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Examples
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Recently, I've found myself using the term "locking it down" frequently in conversations.
Brienne Walsh: Locking It Down: A Story of Modern Love Brienne Walsh 2011
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Recently, I've found myself using the term "locking it down" frequently in conversations.
Brienne Walsh: Locking It Down: A Story of Modern Love Brienne Walsh 2011
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"I don't know what you call locking up," said I, angrily.
The Fixed Period Anthony Trollope 1848
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He is a restricted free agent whom the Blues have tremendous interest in locking up long term.
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The process for producing "falsified FX rates" for pension funds is called "locking the rates," according to both the Virginia and Florida complaints.
Inside a Battle Over Forex Carrick Mollenkamp 2011
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This seems to me to have been unnecessary and rather sophistic (except to achieve the results desired in locking up this defendant).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence 2010
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The backroom deals that resulted in locking out Republican representation during the health care politicking only served to alienate the minority party and intensify any debate that could have been held in a civil manner into explosive confrontation across the media.
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Come on, people, we lead the world in locking people up.
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If they did, they would almost certainly notice a big problem with the way that screen locking is handled.
Why I switched from Windows Mobile to iPhone « dudegalea 2008
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On this logic it may be worth selling unlocked content just to avoid the expense and complexity of a locking strategy, on the rationale that locking is irrelevant to the available of materials on illegal sites.
Bits Debate: Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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