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Answer for the clue "Secure garage ", 7 letters:
lock-up

Word definitions for lock-up in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"detention cell for offenders," 1838, perhaps short for earlier lock-up house ; from lock (v.) + up . Meaning "action of locking up" is from 1845. The verbal phrase lock up is recorded from early 15c.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a lock-up garage British English (= that you rent to keep a car or goods in ) ▪ They kept the car in a lock-up garage round the corner. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He looked back and listened to the pounding on the door, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lock-Up (Lyle Bolton) is a DC Comics supervillain and an enemy of Batman . He first appeared in one episode of Batman: The Animated Series and was incorporated into DC's mainstream continuity in Robin (vol. 4) #24 (January 1996).

Usage examples of lock-up.

I had rather mount guard, for a week, in steel helmet and corselet, with breast, back, culet, gorget, tasses, sword, musket and bandoliers, in the hottest sun that ever roasted a blackamoor, or stand up to my knees, six months, in snow, without my mandilion, than lie a day longer in that ace--I mean that kennel of a lock-up.

God, thought Minogue, Hoey probably looks like a suspect they were bringing to a lock-up.

In a two-car family, one typically was in the generous sized lock-up, the second lengthways outside.

Who oft, when we our house lock up, carouse With tippling tipstaves in a lock-up house.

Now, a lock-up garage is a wonderful thing, almost as wonderful in its way as an allotment shed.

I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.

Nothing in my experience intimated that such men now or ever had existed as other than a fiction, yet they embodied a principle of anonymity that spoke to my sense of style, and so when I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.

Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell.

To be serious: Timothy Hayes, our chairman at the monster meeting, aristocratically dressed among us, had like the rest his plump body literally bloated with lice from the lock-up.

The State is to a certain extent responsible for this class, for it has trained most of them, from youth up, through successive detentions in lock-ups, city prisons, county jails, and in State prisons, and penitentiaries on relatively short sentences, under influences which tend to educate them as criminals and confirm them in a bad life.

And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups?

And warn’t it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know’d up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups?

And how the seeds of many pappous or downy flowers lock-up in sockets after a gomphosis or mortis-articulation, diffuse themselves circularly into branches of rare order, observable in Tragopogon or Goats-beard, conformable to the Spider's web, and the Radii in like manner telarely inter-woven.

And the studiolittle more than a lock-up garage at the back of a run-down housing development, one of those thrown up twenty years ago without any building permit and built so shoddily they were now falling down againwas a very dirty place.

He'd to pass dome lock-up garages and one of the three twelve-storey blocks of flats.