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lockpicking

lockpicking is the alternative form of lock picking.

Meaning of lock picking

Noun

lock picking (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of opening a lock by manipulating its internal components without using the original key intended for that lock.

Questions about lockpicking

What is lockpicking the alternative form of?
Lockpicking is the alternative form of lock picking.

Words near lockpicking in the dictionary

  1. lockpan
  2. lockpick
  3. lockpicked
  4. lockpicker
  5. lockpickers
  6. lockpicking
  7. lockpicks
  8. lockpin
  9. lockpins
  10. lockplate
  11. lockplates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lockpicking (page history and authors); lock picking (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.

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