Word.ws English Dictionary

boxes and locks

boxes and locks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of box and lock.

Meaning of box and lock

Verb

box and lock (third-person singular simple present boxes and locks, present participle boxing and locking, simple past and past participle boxed and locked)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To suppress or hide (something) so that it is not readily available or capable of action.
    • Structural racism and its monopolies have "boxed and locked” Black people.2000, Claud Anderson, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, page 25
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see box, lock.

Questions about boxes and locks

What is boxes and locks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Boxes and locks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of box and lock.

Words near boxes and locks in the dictionary

  1. boxerly
  2. boxers
  3. Boxers Creek
  4. boxes
  5. boxes and coxes
  6. boxes and locks
  7. boxes clever
  8. boxes ears
  9. boxes Harry
  10. boxes in
  11. boxes of ivories

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boxes and locks (page history and authors); box and lock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boxes and locks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boxes_and_locks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.