locked

• (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkt

locked

1. simple past and past participle of lock

locked (not comparable)

1. Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.

   A locked door barred the way.

2. (computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

   You can't delete a locked computer file.

3. (Ireland) Very drunk.
   • 2021, Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

     'Drunk. Battered. Ar meisce. In a state of alcohol-induced intoxication.' […] Nadine and I once watched the news and had a shot of absinthe every time someone said unnatural. We were absolutely locked.'

4. (mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.

   Antonym: unlocked

• (secured by a lock):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (bound to a carrier): dedicated

• sealocked

• A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan, page 142
• Eric Partridge (2005) “locked”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN.

• cloked