locker room

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English

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A locker room

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uːm
  • Audio (US):(file)

Etymology 1

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Noun

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locker room (plural locker rooms)

  1. (US, Canada) A room attached to an athletic, recreational, or workplace facility, filled with lockers for storage of clothing and equipment; clothes are generally changed there.
    Synonyms: changing room, dressing room
    We changed into our swimsuits in the locker room next to the pool.
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Adjective

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locker room (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Characteristic of conversations held in locker rooms; that is boastful, juvenile, or explicitly sexual.
    The others tired of Frank's habitual locker-room boasting about various women he had "scored" with
    • 2018 January 22, Melody Chiu, Emily V. Gordon, “How Kumail Nanjiani Found the 'Perfect' Wife (and More!)”, in People:
      “I think of how scary it was for me starting comedy in Chicago, and then how much scarier it would have been if I was a woman starting comedy there because it really was such a boys’ club,” he says. “It was very aggressive. It was very locker room.
    • 2018 January 30, Neil Best, “Director explains how ‘The Two Bills’ documentary with Parcells and Belichick came together”, in Newsday (New York):
      It’s in a very locker room, busting-my-stones sort of way.

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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locker room (uncountable)

  1. (slang) inhalants

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