locked

Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.

Adjective

  1. Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
    • A locked door barred the way.
  2. Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
    • You can't delete a locked computer file.
  3. Very drunk.
    • '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.' - 2021, Samantha...
  4. Bound to a carrier.

    Antonyms: unlocked

  5. Styled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.

    Synonyms: loc'd dreadlocked

Origin

* (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.

Synonyms

drunk dedicated

Derived

geolocked landlocked locked and loaded locked behind bars locked-room mystery locked up long-locked multilocked nonlocked region-locked sealocked wood-locked ziplocked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of lock