Definition of "lockup" []

• Informal A jail, especially one in which offenders are held while awaiting a court hearing. (noun)
• The act or an instance of locking. (noun)
• The state of being locked. (noun)

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• "You can also appreciate how difficult it can be for local enforcement to p/u someone who is identified as illegal through a routine stop or checkpoint and the illegal is put in lockup only to be turned out and picked up again, maybe multiple times, before a more serious offense occurs."
• "Though Elizabeth I has Mary, Queen of Scots exactly where she wants her -- in lockup -- it's Elizabeth who seems the persecuted soul in Washington Shakespeare Company's impressively disciplined "Mary Stuart.""
• "While Baltar was in lockup awaiting trial, she had asked him to pray for Derek."