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padlocked

padlocked adjective: secured with a padlock. Also the simple past and past participle of padlock.

Adjective

padlocked (not comparable)

  1. Secured with a padlock.
    • Sidonia's answer was that she had enclosed the spell in a padlocked box and flung it into the sea.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 92
    • Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.2016 March 24, Darryl Sterdan, “ZAYN’s ‘Mind of Mine’ and Gwen Stefani’s ‘This is What the Truth Feels Like’ top this week’s new music”, in The Toronto Star, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2018

Also used as

padlocked is also the simple past and past participle of padlock.

Origin of padlocked

From padlock + -ed.

Words formed from padlocked

Questions about padlocked

What does padlocked mean?
Padlocked means secured with a padlock.
What part of speech is padlocked?
Padlocked is an adjective.

Words near padlocked in the dictionary

  1. Padley
  2. Padleys
  3. padlike
  4. padlock
  5. padlockable
  6. padlocked
  7. padlocking
  8. padlocks
  9. padloper
  10. padlopers
  11. Padlos

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