a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
Examples of 'Lockerbie' in a sentence
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Until Lockerbie, devolution had seemed a domestic quarrel.