caps lock

Noun capitalized: Caps Lock

Caps Lock (countable and uncountable, plural Caps Locks)

1. (uncountable) An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
   • Please check if Caps Lock is on when typing your password.
2. (countable) A lock key on a computer keyboard that activates this mode.
3. (broadly, informal, uncountable) All caps.
   • I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how...2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan