Definition of Lockups

1. Noun. (plural of lockup) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lockups

1. lockup [n] - See also: lockup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockups

locksmen
locksmith
locksmithery
locksmithing
locksmithings
locksmiths
locksmithy
lockstep
locksteps
lockstitch
lockstitched
lockstitches
lockstitching
lockt
lockup
lockups (current term)
locky
loco
loco citato
loco disease
locobase
locoed
locoes
locofoco
locofocos
locoing
locoism
locoisms
locoman
locomen

Literary usage of Lockups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Prison Conditions in South Africa by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Africa Watch Committee, Prison Project (Human Rights Watch) (1994)
"POLICE lockups PHYSICAL CONDITIONS According to recent government statistics, at any given time, 12000 pre-trial detainees are held in police lockups under ..."

2. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1901)
"It is the purpose of this report to give a plain and candid statement of the present condition of our lockups, jails, and workhouses, ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1901)
"... a plain and candid statement of the present condition of our lockups, jails, and workhouses, to show what improvements have been made in some quarters, ..."

4. Behind Bars in Brazil by Joanne Mariner, James Cavallaro (1998)
"Torture in Police lockups While the physical conditions of police lockups prove their unsuitability for anything more than short-term detention of arrested ..."

5. "Nobody's Children": Jamaican Children in Police Detention and Government by Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"The boy had spent a period of time in the remand center, but had been sent back to the lockups because the remand center felt that he was a discipline ..."

6. Prison Conditions in Czechoslovakia: An Update by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Herman Schwartz, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) (1991)
"... police station lockups, where arrestees arc kept briefly under police ... the cells.1" Prisoners are normally kepi in the ]x>lice lockups for 24 hours, ..."

7. Analytic System for the Measurement of Relative Fire Hazard (mercantile by Albert Flandreau Dean (1906)
"273 Jails or lockups, with iron cells 60% 20% 1. If wooden cells, add 40% 2. Stabling 10% 274 Japanese Stores (see Chinese Stores). ..."

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