locked up
Secured and inaccessible
Locked up means confined or secured, typically in jail or prison: He got locked up for assault.
The phrase extends to anything securely closed or inaccessible: The files are locked up in the safe.
In sports and competitions, to have something locked up is to have victory assured: They had the championship locked up by halftime.
- jailedConfined in prison
- imprisonedHeld in custody
- incarceratedConfined in prison
- doing timeServing a prison sentence
- captiveOne held by force
thrown in jail · cell · padded cell · confined · detained · bars · shackled · ball and chain · trapped · bolted · caged · penitentiary · inmate · flight risk · key · stifled · repressed · chains
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- stuckjammed, clogged, trapped, stuck in mud, snowed in
- malfunction termsbroke, crashed, failed, froze, glitched
- nonfunctionalbroken, malfunctioning, inoperative, out of order, nonfunctional
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- storedstored, warehoused, stashed, stowed, kept
physical confinement
locked upfree
Without payment or restriction
released · liberated · set free · at liberty · out
lock, locked, locker, locket, lock up, padlock, unlocked, locking, locksmith