Definition of "locker" []

• One that locks: a locker of windows and doors. (noun)
• A small, usually metal compartment that can be locked, especially one at a gymnasium or public place for the safekeeping of clothing and valuables. (noun)
• A flat trunk for storage. (noun)
• A heavily insulated refrigerated cabinet, compartment, or room for storing frozen foods. (noun)

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• "High school as American exceptionalism in the bang of a locker is a fetching idea, but unfortunately, Milner's specialty is pecking orders: his best-known work, Status and Sacredness (1994), examined India's caste system."
• "Before he executed this duty, however, the unfortunate man opened what he called a locker -- what a housewife would term a cupboard -- and fortified his nerves with a strong draught of pure Nantes; a liquor that no hostilities, custom-house duties, or national antipathies, has ever been able to bring into general disrepute in the British Islands."
• "Last Hero, do you like hanging out in locker rooms full of naked and sweaty male bodies?"