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ˈlock-up, n. (a.)
[f. lock v.1 + up adv.]
1. The action of locking up, in various senses.
a. The action of locking up a school, etc. for the night; also, the time at which this is done. Also attrib.
1845T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Expedition xvii. 300 To elude the vigilance of the officer at lock-up time. 1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Mar. 148 During the long winter's evenings, after Lock-up. 1890M. Williams Leaves Life I. 16 One of the amusements of the Lower boys was, after ‘lock up’, to be perpetually ringing old Plumptree's bell and running away. 1910A. Huxley Let. 5 June (1969) 37 To crown all we were 5 minutes late for lock-up! 1914‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iv. 104 Rules, roll-calls, bounds, lock-ups. 1968Eton College Chron. 22 Mar. 6221, Sat. Mar. 23 Lock-up, 7.15 p.m.
b. The action of ‘locking up’ capital, or investing it so that it cannot be quickly realized; an instance of this. Also, an amount so ‘locked up’. Also attrib.
1866Crump Banking xi. 246 The banker continues to throw good money after bad, the termination of which..is an indefinite lock-up. 1889Spectator 9 Mar., This means a ‘lock-up’ of nine millions sterling. 1893Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 6/3 To distinguish between bills and mortgages—between liquid assets and lock-ups. 1900Ibid. 30 May 9/3 Those who buy such shares as a ‘lock-up’ may possibly be able to sell them at much higher prices. 1908Daily Report 26 Aug. 5/4 As a promising speculative lock-up holding, the shares are worth buying at the present prices. 1929Observer 17 Nov. 4/3 The shares may be regarded as a good lock-up investment.
c. Printing. The action of preparing plates or formes for printing or placing them in the press; also, a contrivance for holding the plates or formes in a press. Also attrib. Cf. lock v.1 6.
1888C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 76 Lock-up chases, special chases made in order to dispense with large quantities of furniture in filling up spare room in formes or on the press. Lock-up iron, the iron stick used for tightening up formes as they stand instead of laying them up. 1925H. Crane Let. 4 May (1965) 203 Lockup & Presswork..$40.00. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 240/2 Lock-up table, any of several varieties of imposing surface specially equipped for the accurate imposition of formes for colour registration. 1964Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Printing Terms (B.S.I.) 15 Lock-up. 1. A mechanical arrangement for holding the printing plates or formes on the press. 2. The action of locking the printing plates or formes on the press. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes ii. 23 The form of hot type is locked up in a chase with ‘furniture’ (blocks of wood or metal) and quoins by the lock-up man. Ibid. 24 This [sc. preparation of printing surfaces] includes lock-up and imposition.
2. (Short for lock-up house or room: see 4.) An apartment or building that can be locked up.
a. gen.
1890Daily News 17 Feb. 3/4 No. 126 was what builders call the ‘lock up’. Tools, screws, door handles, etc., were stored in the middle room on the first floor, the door of which was kept locked.
b. A house or room for the detention (usually temporary) of offenders.
1839Knickerbocker XIV. 110 He was seized, and carried to the ‘lock-up’. 1859Jephson Brittany ix. 141 Lodge me in the lock-up for the night. 1865J. Cameron Malayan India 267 In ten days..600 prisoners were accumulated in the lock-ups of the central police station. 1891Barrie Little Minister (1892) 65 Gavin was with the families whose breadwinners were now in the lock-up. 1972Police Rev. 8 Dec. 1599/1 There would be a chance to run these establishments as if they were something more constructive than mere lock-ups. 1973R. Busby Pattern of Violence i. 14 Sam..was at present residing within the central lock-up in..police headquarters, ready to appear before the court.
c. Short for lock-up garage.
1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1036 Southgate Private Hotel..Lock-up for Bicycles. Ibid. 1070 Motor garage, with 12 lock ups. 1973E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance ix. 103 ‘Was the car standing out while you were in Cornwall?’ ‘No. They gave me a lock-up.’ 1974G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah v. 68 We followed Jonah..to the garages..frisked him and pinched the key to his lock-up.
3. An official who locks up a building for the night.
1893H. le Caron 25 Yrs. in the Secret Service (ed. 15) 165 Breslin, who was chief hospital warden, and Byrne, who was night-watchman and ‘lock-up’.
4. attrib. passing into adj., with the sense ‘capable of being locked up’; as lock-up book, lock-up coach-house, lock-up cubicle, lock-up garage, lock-up line (of business), lock-up place, lock-up prisoner, lock-up room, lock-up shed; lock-up house, a house of detention, spec. (see quot. 1785); lock-up shop, a detached apartment used as a shop and locked up at night.
1870G. H. Lewes Diary 22 Nov. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) V. 123 Bought Polly a *Lock-up book for her Autobiog[raphy].
1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxv, Choice stabling, and a *lock-up coach-house.
1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1019 Most up-to-date Motor Garage, with *lock-up Cubicles.
1935Archit. Rev. LXXVIII. 168/1 A general garage and a number of private *lock-up garages. 1963Times 21 Feb. 8/7 The rent of all council houses and lock-up garages provided by Maidstone Town Council is to be increased by 12½ per cent.
1767Chron. in Ann. Reg. 60/2 The office keeper..found it to be a *lock-up house for recruits. 1772Ibid. *72 The detestable practices carried on by kidnappers..in what are called lock-up houses. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Lock up house, a spunging house..also houses kept by agents or crimps, who inlist or rather trepan men to serve the East India, or African Company as soldiers. 1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 332 note, Coleman-street..had in it..a Magistrate..and a lock-up house. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iii. (1876) 246 He was in hiding, or worse than in hiding, in the lock-up house.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, There is not a man..could be of sae muckle use..in the..*lock-up line of business.
1809Malkin Gil Blas vi. i. ⁋15 He..opened all his *lock-up places.
1846D. Corcoran Pickings 33 To the right of the column we perceived a prisoner whom we at once knew was above and beyond the ordinary class of *lock-up prisoners.
1823Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1825) I. 171 The Magistrate..was surprised to see such a figure brought out from amongst the filthy wretches..of the *lock-up room. 1880Daily News 7 Oct. 4/1 Dry and clean separate lock-up rooms.
1812P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 54 They are under a *lock-up shed.
1897Daily News 1 Dec. 3/5 The building is a *lock-up shop which was closed at about 6.30 last evening. 1906Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 5/7 Many people patrolled the district in which Fell's warehouse and Beardwood's lock-up shop are situated. 1947Lock-up shop [see amusement 7]. |