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n. Informal A jail, especially one in which offenders are held while awaiting a court hearing.

n. The act or an instance of locking.

n. The state of being locked.

n. A jail, prison.

n. A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage

n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail.

The act or state of temporary imprisonment in a lockup{1}.

A malfunction in a machine having moving parts, such that the moving part cannot move; a seizure.

n. The act of locking up, or the state of being locked up. See to lock up, under lock, transitive verb

n. A room or place in which persons under arrest are temporarily confined.

v. secure by locking

v. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

n. jail in a local police station

n. the act of locking something up to protect it

"You can also appreciate how difficult it can be for local enforcement to p/u someone who is identified as illegal through a routine stop or checkpoint and the illegal is put in lockup only to be turned out and picked up again, maybe multiple times, before a more serious offense occurs."

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