lock up

See also: lockup and lock-up

English

Alternative forms

• lock-up

Etymology

lock + up

Verb

lock up (third-person singular simple present locks up, present participle locking up, simple past and past participle locked up)

1. (transitive) to imprison or incarcerate someone
2. (transitive) to invest in something long term
3. (intransitive) to close all doors and windows of a place securely
4. (intransitive, computing) to cease responding, to freeze
5. (intransitive, mechanics) to stop moving, to seize
6. To lose one's forward momentum, to freeze.
7. (intransitive, motor racing) To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's tyres or tires to lock up (stop spinning).
   • 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area. Again, Hamilton got a run on him, and this time Leclerc defended robustly through the flat-out Curva Grande, moving very late to block Hamilton to the Ferrari's left.

Synonyms

• (computing) freeze, hang

Related terms

• lockup

Translations

to imprison or incarcerate someone

• Bulgarian: затваря́м (bg) (zatvarjám)
• Finnish: vangita (fi)
• French: enfermer (fr)
• German: einschließen (de), einsperren (de), wegschließen (de)
• Ido: enceluligar (io)

• Japanese: 閉じ込める (とじこめる, tojikomeru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: inclūdō
• Portuguese: prender (pt)
• Russian: запира́ть (ru) impf (zapirátʹ), запере́ть (ru) pf (zaperétʹ)
• Spanish: encerrar (es)

to close the doors and windows securely

• Armenian: կողպել (hy) (kołpel), փակել (hy) (pʿakel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎖上 (zh), 锁上 (zh) (suǒshàng), 鎖定 (zh), 锁定 (zh) (suǒdìng)

• Finnish: lukita (fi)
• French: verrouiller (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: запира́ть (ru) impf (zapirátʹ), запере́ть (ru) pf (zaperétʹ)
• Spanish: cerrar (es), trancar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

of a computer: to cease responding

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hyytyä, jumittua (fi)
• French: se bloquer (fr)
• German: sich aufhängen

• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: travar (pt)
• Russian: ви́снуть (ru) impf (vísnutʹ), зави́снуть (ru) pf (zavísnutʹ)
• Spanish: colgarse (es), bloquearse (es), trancarse (es)
• Swedish: frysa (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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