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lockup

noun as in jail

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We were traumatized every time we prepared to go out as we don’t know if we are going to be arrested and placed in the lockups.

A few days after Chin’s conviction, his lawyer called me and Caryle Murphy, a reporter from The Washington Post, to interview him in a local lockup.

Rumors swirled that he was a fed in disguise investigating the notorious lockup, or a double spy working for the prison itself.

“I’m not about to do that again,” she said, referring to her night in lockup.

He hasn’t exercised any of his options and his shares are subject to a lockup period that ends in March.

From Fortune

Rita King likely would have disagreed with that sentiment when Evans entered the lockup room in back in April 2011.

He was captured and sent to the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Inside a secure so-called lockup room on the top floor of the William McChesney Martin Jr.

MSNBC—home of said preacher and also of Lockup, a reality show about prison that is its biggest draw—can only spin.

Just this Monday, Facebook stock declined to $18.87 in intraday trading on concerns about the lockup expiring.

In accordance therewith a lockup was provided and cells built under the market.

Her most anxious thoughts concerned the means of getting money to lockup Harry's tongue.

If I see you around here when any more tests are going on Ill take you to the lockup myself.

Been in some other lockup, I suppose, since we saw you last?

The policeman led his prisoner away to the lockup, while all the rest of us followed up the search for half an hour.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lockup, such as: penitentiary, clink, cooler, hoosegow, pokey, and prison.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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