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vb. (en-third-person singularlock up)
Usage examples of "locks up".
Uncle Sam locks up or deports one triad man and they send two to take his place.
Allwyn donned an old black hat, and she tucked his locks up tightly inside it.
Damali roughly removed it, tossing it onto a chair, and she held her shoulder-length locks up off her neck to give her overheated body a much-needed waft of air.
Meanwhile, Grappa is set free by his Yuzzem servant (whom he promptly locks up).
It frees the elements that life locks up in fossils, and releases others like potassium.
I'll pick apples this week and potatoes the week after that and when the frost locks up the ground like money inside a bank vault, why, I'll hop a GS&WM box that smells of sugar-beets and I'll sit in the corner and pull some hay over me if there is some and I'll drink me a little drink and chew me a link chew and sooner or later I'll get to Portland or Beantown, and if I don't get busted by a railroad security dick I'll hop one of those 'Bama Star boxes and head down south and when I get there I'll pick lemons or limes or oranges.
I'll pick apples this week and potatoes the week after that and when the frost locks up the ground like money inside a bank vault, why, I'll hop a GS&.