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wedlocked

wedlocked adjective: united in wedlock.

Adjective

wedlocked (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, humorous) United in wedlock.
    • That's manipulative, the conventional take on a wife who chose to stay wedlocked to her perma-tanned husband despite his chronically cheesy behaviour, from phone calls to a sex chat line (purportedly for the purpose of opinion polling, a typical Berlusconi stunt) to old-coot flirting with...2009 May 11, Rosie DiManno, “No girl power in shaming cheats”, in Toronto Star

Origin of wedlocked

From wedlock + -ed.

Questions about wedlocked

What does wedlocked mean?
Wedlocked means united in wedlock.
What part of speech is wedlocked?
Wedlocked is an adjective.

Words near wedlocked in the dictionary

  1. wedlease
  2. wedleased
  3. wedleases
  4. wedleasing
  5. wedlock
  6. wedlocked
  7. wedlocks
  8. wedmin
  9. Wedmore
  10. Wednesbury
  11. Wednesbury unreasonable

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