lock down
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship.
Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "But even as the fireball races both skywards and downwards, the mortally-wounded Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, crawls over to a voicepipe despite the loss of both legs and orders the magazines locked down and flooded. It's his last act on this Earth; his body will be found later, next to the voicepipe."
- "Police have the area locked down until the situation is all-clear."
- "It took me some time, but I finally locked her down."