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lockscreen

lockscreen is the alternative form of lock screen.

Meaning of lock screen

Noun

lock screen (plural lock screens)

  1. A screen displayed by a computer or mobile device left unattended, requiring the user to perform a certain action to regain access.
    • Take down any pictures, change your lock screen, and put all your cute couple selfies in a “do not open” folder. Then, you know…actually don’t open it.2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan

Forms of lockscreen

plurallockscreens

Questions about lockscreen

What is lockscreen the alternative form of?
Lockscreen is the alternative form of lock screen.

Words near lockscreen in the dictionary

  1. locks the stable door after the horse has been stolen
  2. locks the stable door after the horse has bolted
  3. locks through
  4. locks under
  5. locks up
  6. lockscreen
  7. lockscreens
  8. Lockses
  9. lockset
  10. locksets
  11. locksful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lockscreen (page history and authors); lock screen (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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