| 单词 | lock up |
| 释义 | lock up 1. phrasal verb B2 If you lock something up in a place or container, you put or hide it there and fasten the lock. Give away any food you have on hand, or lock it up and give the key to the neighbours. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Locking up poisons provides protection against the likelihood of unintentional injury of young children. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb To lock someone up means to put them in prison or a secure psychiatric hospital. Mr Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb B2 See full dictionary entry for lock When you lock up a building or car or lock up, you make sure that all the doors and windows are locked so that nobody can get in. Don't forget to lock up. [VERB PARTICLE] Leave your car here and lock it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] lock-up also lockup Word forms: lock-ups 1. countable noun A lock-up is the same as a jail. [US, informal] ...the 450 inmates at the maximum-security lock-up in Lucasville. 2. countable noun A lock-up is a garage that is used by someone, but is not next to their house. [British] 25lb of Semtex explosive was found in the lock-up she had rented to Mr Henderson. Lock-up is also an adjective. ...a lock-up garage. Collocations: lock-up garage It was a rocky start, at one time borrowing tyres, and he conducted his business from a telephone box outside his lock-up garage. Times, Sunday Times Yet for seven months it was sitting in a humble lock-up garage just two miles from where it had disappeared. The Sun They started their dig from a lock-up garage. The Sun The raiders dug a 4.5ft high, 3ft wide tunnel - shored up with wood - from a lock-up garage in a multi-storey car park. The Sun During weeks of preparation the villains broke through 3ft-thick concrete walls to get into the bank after tunnelling from a lock-up garage rented under a false name. Times, Sunday Times |
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