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lock outs

lock outs is the plural of lock out.

Meaning of lock out

Verb

lock out (third-person singular simple present locks out, present participle locking out, simple past and past participle locked out)

  1. (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
    • I've locked myself out of my room again!
    Antonyms:
    let in, lock in
  2. To prevent from accessing a data structure.
    • The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.
  3. (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
  4. (intransitive, transitive) (colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate.
    • Bro, I am totally locked out on this assignment.

Questions about lock outs

What is lock outs the plural of?
Lock outs is the plural of lock out.

Words near lock outs in the dictionary

  1. lock lips
  2. lock off
  3. lock offs
  4. lock on
  5. lock out
  6. lock outs
  7. lock pick
  8. lock pick gun
  9. lock pick guns
  10. lock picked
  11. lock picking

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