Locker

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English

Noun

Locker (plural Lockers)
  1. A type of storage compartment with a lock usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books.
    The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.
  2. (rare) One who locks something.
    The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.

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Thesaurus

Fort Knox, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, bursary, buttery, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, cellar, chest, closet, coffer, coin box, cold storage, conservatory, coolerman, coolhouse, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, fisc, freezer locker, frigidarium, frozen-food locker, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, library, locker plant, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, money chest, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, till, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

Etymology

From lock (+ -er) from Old English loc (fastening, enclosure) from Proto-Germanic *lukan. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)

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German

Adjective

Locker (comparative lockerer, superlative am lockersten)
  1. loose

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Verb

Locker

  1. First-person singular present of lockern.
  2. Imperative singular of lockern.