See Also: locked(2)(dictionary)
locked(1)(dictionary)
Locked in(finance)
Locked In(money)
Locked market(finance)
Locked market(money)
locked-in syndrome(medicine)
locked knee(medicine)
locked facets(medicine)
locked bite(medicine)

locked(2) (iou)



locked adjective2. LME.
[from LOCK verb1, noun2: see -ED1, -ED2.]
That has been locked; that has locked; esp. (also foll. by up) closed with a lock and key. LME.
British Medical Journal Limited movement in knee which becomes locked if moved much. A. Judd The people..had retreated behind locked doors and put out their lights.
Provide with a (pad)lock. L15.
Of a canal: provided with locks. E19.
Special collocations & comb.: locked-coil adjective designating a rope or cable which has the outer strands of such a shape as to lock together and form a smooth cylindrical surface. locked groove on a gramophone record, a circular groove into which the normal spiral groove runs. locked jaw (a) a jaw shut fast by spasmodic contraction of the muscles; (b) = LOCKJAW.