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airlocked

airlocked adjective: equipped with an airlock. Also the simple past and past participle of airlock.

Adjective

airlocked (comparative more airlocked, superlative most airlocked)

  1. Equipped with an airlock.
    • While Flora and Doc waited their turn through the airlocked tube to the city, Simianoids walked past in a column of fives2014 November 13, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 104
  2. Blocked or non-functional due to an air lock.
  3. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) Extremely drunk.
    • It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk.2018 April 18, Alan Croft, There's Always Risk in Movement: Tales from Old Reading Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Also used as

airlocked is also the simple past and past participle of airlock.

Synonyms of airlocked

Forms of airlocked

comparativemore airlocked
superlativemost airlocked

Origin of airlocked

Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.

Questions about airlocked

What does airlocked mean?
Airlocked means equipped with an airlock.
What part of speech is airlocked?
Airlocked is an adjective.

Words near airlocked in the dictionary

  1. airling
  2. airlings
  3. airlink
  4. airlinks
  5. airlock
  6. airlocked
  7. airlocking
  8. airlocks
  9. airly
  10. airmail
  11. airmail field

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